Union Pacific issued at least four different wrap-around color menus featuring Boulder/Hoover Dam, starting with a canyon-bottom view similar to this one in 1947, followed by an overhead view as early as 1948. After this one appeared in the late … Continue reading
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Here’s another menu in the strange, non-wrap-around format. Even stranger, this menu uses the exact-same photo that was used on other Columbia Gorge menus, only the two people at the bottom of the photo in the other menus have been … Continue reading
Every time I think my collection of Union Pacific wrap-around color photo menus is nearing completion, I find something new. Here is a 1957 City of Portland breakfast menu featuring something I’ve never before seen on a Union Pacific menu … Continue reading
We’ve already seen this photograph on the cover of a 1958 menu marked “Domeliner City of Portland.” This one is from 1954, before domes were added to the train, so it is marked “Streamliner City of Portland.” It is also … Continue reading
UP had at least four different menus showing skiers above its Sun Valley resort in Idaho. This particular menu was not used on a train but was used in UP’s West Yellowstone dining lodge in the 1953 summer season. You … Continue reading
This is one of two Missouri menus that I’ve identified so far that were exclusively used on the City of St. Louis, the other showing a photo of Kansas City Union Station. Since that train was a joint UP-Wabash operation, … Continue reading
The last menu I have for the Michigan Wolverine Club is a dinner menu dated January 6. The Los Angeles Limited would serve another breakfast and a lunch, before arriving in Chicago, presumably on January 7. This menu cover features … Continue reading
For lunch on January 6, Wolverine Club members ordered from this menu featuring the University of Colorado on its cover. We’ve seen this cover before, of course, but the menu on the inside is different as the previous one was … Continue reading
Breakfast on the Los Angeles Limited on January 6, 1951, featured this menu showing the University of Nebraska’s ivy-covered administration building. Like menus from the previous two days, this one is imprinted for members of the Wolverine Club returning home … Continue reading
Members of the Wolverine Club enjoyed dinner on the Los Angeles Limited using this menu on January 5, 1951. The sandstone building on the cover was the University of Wyoming’s Liberal Arts Building, now the Arts and Sciences Building, and … Continue reading