Five years after yesterday’s dinner menu, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is still 40 cents. The most expensive meal is a hamburger, French fries, soup or juice, dessert, and beverage at $1.15, or about $7.50 today. cheapest viagra tablets … Continue reading
This menu is dated 1964, which means it was probably used on a streamliner as Union Pacific didn’t have many heavyweight trains with dining car service left. Children under 12 could order a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for 40 … Continue reading
This brochure dates from July, 1941, about the same time as the Famous Fleet of Streamliners brochure, and provides more detail on the two trains that provided every-third-day service between Chicago and Los Angeles. The brochure contains 14 color drawings … Continue reading
If, as I speculated a couple of days ago, differences between City of San Francisco and other City train menus in the late 1950s were due to differences between the Southern Pacific and Union Pacific commissaries, those differences did not … Continue reading
The cover of this menu shows Nob Hill in San Francisco. The description doesn’t say so, but the red building on the right is the Huntington Hotel; the large building in the center is the Mark Hopkins Hotel; and the … Continue reading
This 1958 lunch menu has a marvelously colorful cover. Like yesterday’s breakfast menu, the menu inside has a wide range of offerings. Complete meals include fried or grilled fish; hot turkey sandwich; omelet with minced ham; baked beans and sausages; … Continue reading
The Union Pacific seemed to have complete control over the menus of the City of Los Angeles and City of Portland even though these trains also went over the Chicago & North Western (before 1955) and Milwaukee Road (after 1955). … Continue reading
This 1971 dinner menu was printed for the City of Portland. Appropriately enough, it features a Fogg painting of a train in the Columbia River Gorge. But the railroad in the painting actually precedes the Union Pacific by several decades. … Continue reading
After 1969, the Union Pacific went back to its photo menus for most meals, but–perhaps using up leftover stock–continued to use Fogg menus from time to time. Here is a 1971 lunch menu featuring a painting of a steamboat used … Continue reading
Here’s another breakfast menu featuring a Howard Fogg portrait, this time of two modern freight trains meeting in Utah’s Weber Canyon. As near as I can tell, the menu itself is identical to the one with the Last Spike cover; … Continue reading
