This menu is undated, but the prices of the deluxe dinner salad and sirloin steak dinner are exactly the same as … Continue reading
Category Archives: Union Pacific
The City of Los Angeles menu is dated November, 1964 and is the same size as UP’s color-photo menus. Inside, the menu has the same table d’hôte-only format as some other dinner menus of the late 1950s and early 1960s. … Continue reading
Here is an elegant blotter that uses the same logo and typeface as a piece of on-board stationery that I posted here more than two years ago. As I noted then, they show the Golden Gate before the construction of … Continue reading
Union Pacific’s 1947 dude ranches guide listed 108 ranches in 36 pages; the 1955 guide listed 138 ranches in 60 pages. This guide, from 1959, lists 143 ranches in 68 pages. Click image to download a 27.8-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
This 1959 brochure is a companion to a City of Los Angeles brochure published in the same year. The railroad still published full, 48-page along-the-way booklets for the entire system, but apparently hoped it could save money by giving some … Continue reading
This is an updated version of a 1950 booklet. The two booklets have many of the same photos and much the same text. In addition to having a different cover, the newer edition has five new color photos of scenery, … Continue reading
This 1955 brochure describes the post-war City of Denver, which featured a dining car decorated with cities-to-plains murals, an Old English pub served by red-jacketed waiters, and a blunt-end observation lounge car. The brochure is decorated with color photos and … Continue reading
This is the 1955 update to the 1947 Dude Ranches booklet we’ve seen before. The update not only has a different cover, it has far more pages: 60 vs. just 36. The 1955 booklet describes about 138 guest ranches compared … Continue reading
This near-postcard-sized booklet briefly describes Bryce, Zion, and the Grand Canyon as accessed by “all-expense motor bus tours” beginning from the Union Pacific station in Cedar City, Utah. The booklet invites people fascinated by the color photos to “ask any … Continue reading
Union Pacific handed out this brochure describing the road road’s history of locomotion on the railroad at the 1948 Chicago Rail Fair. Curiously, it doesn’t start with locomotive 119, which was present at the Last Spike ceremony, or any other … Continue reading