We’ve previously seen a 1948 version of this menu with the tiny yet notable difference that the cover photo on this one is titled “Farming” while the later one is called “Green Gold.” No doubt someone in the Rio Grande … Continue reading
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This timetable was picked up the same Detroit Knights Templar traveler who also collected Southern Pacific menus and timetables and one New York Central menu. The actual Rio Grande timetables in this publication fill only five of the 16 pages, … Continue reading
These three menus were used on the train chartered for the Detroit Knights Templar for their September 1949 journey to the mason’s convention in San Francisco. We’ve seen the covers before but not the interiors. Click image to download a … Continue reading
Here’s a Rio Grande menu in the glued-on photo series that we haven’t seen before. It features the Geneva Steel mill that was built in Utah with federal funds during World War II. After the war, the federal government sold … Continue reading
A man and two women sail an uncomfortably small boat over the Great Salt Lake. As the back of the menu notes, the lake is six to eight times as salty as the ocean, making it difficult to drown in … Continue reading
Ruby Canyon is one of the western-most canyons the Rio Grande Railroad passes through in the Colorado Rockies. After leaving the canyon, the railroad will cross the plains through Grand Junction before entering Utah and another chain of mountains. The … Continue reading
Here is an unusual version of one of Rio Grande’s glued-on menu series. Instead of putting the name of the meal on the top of the front cover, this one has the name of the train, the Prospector. The cover … Continue reading
Before the Moffat Tunnel opened in 1928, the Denver & Salt Lake Railway crossed the Rockies over Rollins Pass, which was more than 11,600 feet in elevation. Ascending and descending the pass required numerous tunnels, trestles, 180-degree curves, and at … Continue reading
Here is yet another view of Sopris Peak and the Crystal River, this one on one of Rio Grande’s wraparound photo menus. I’ve been to Colorado many times, but had never heard of the Crystal River until a Streamliner Memories … Continue reading
Here’s a view of the Crystal River and Mount Sopris (which the menu calls Sopris Peak) in Rio Grande’s front-cover photo series. “The sparkling Crystal River is but one of a number of streams in the area known to trout … Continue reading