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
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
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
