Sunrise Breakfast and Lunch Cards

The sun rose on the westbound City of Los Angeles around the time it crossed the Nevada-California border, and Howard Fogg’s painting appears to be near Yermo, California. Union Pacific used this painting on some of its menu folders but also on menu cards such as the ones shown here.


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Some menu cards specifically stated that they were used in the coffee shop car as opposed to the full diner. While these do not, since UP used menu folders for breakfast and lunch in its diners, they were probably also used in the coffee shop. Above is a lunch menu, while below is the menu side of a breakfast menu that has the same painting on the other side.

Click image to download a 0.9-MB PDF of this menu.


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