In addition to the color photos on the cover, this timetable makes some interesting if questionable uses of color. The inside front cover pictures two cars from the Prospector and one from the California Zephyr using black-and-white photos but with … Continue reading
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This 108-page booklet is a combination of advertisement, travel advisor, and along-the-way guide for all of the routes of the Denver & Rio Grande Western in 1925. Although the Moffat Tunnel route was still nearly ten years away, the Rio … Continue reading
As of 1887, three different railroads — the Denver & Rio Grande; Denver, Texas & Gulf (later Colorado & Southern); and Santa Fe — had lines from Denver to Pueblo. They competed until 1918, when the federal government temporarily took … Continue reading
The Rio Grande installed this “monument to an idea” in Glenwood Canyon in 1950, a year after the inaugural run of the California Zephyr. As much as it was a monument to the dome car, it was also a monument … Continue reading
“Colorado is the “highest of all the forty-eight states,” notes the back of this menu. “Forty-nine of Colorado’s peaks push skyward more than 14,000 feet above the level of the sea [today it is supposed to be 53, though some … Continue reading
The Los Pinos River, sometimes called the Pine River, flows out of what is now the Wenimuche Wilderness Area near Durango, Colorado. This wilderness is nearly half a million acres in size, and one of its trail heads is only … Continue reading
The Abington Pennsylvania high school band rode the Rio Grande on January 3 and 4. The menu doesn’t say what year, but it must have been 1962, when the band marched in the Pasadena Rose Parade. Click image to download … Continue reading
This is the 33rd menu I’ve identified in the series of Rio Grande menus with color photos glued onto the front covers. It is far from the most interesting menu in the series but all new menus are interesting as … Continue reading
We’ve seen this photo before on the cover of a 1951 menu. The back cover of that menu, however, showed the Royal Gorge train in the Royal Gorge. This one, however, shows the Maroon Bells, using the same photo used … Continue reading
“Vista Dome cars will be featured in the shining new stainless steel California Zephyr,” says the back of this menu. In fact, this menu is dated April 21, 1950, so the California Zephyr had already been operating for more than … Continue reading