Golden Spike Breakfast Menu

We’ve seen Howard Fogg’s portrayal of the Golden Spike ceremony on a breakfast menu folder. This is the same painting on a breakfast menu card. Like most of the breakfast and lunch menus I’ve shown in the last couple of days, this one is dated August 1970 (one of the Sunrise menus was dated September 1970).

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

Union Pacific commissioned sixteen paintings from Howard Fogg to celebrate its 1969 centennial. But it used only six of those paintings on its menu folders, and the same six on menu cards, leaving out paintings of important passenger trains such as the M-10000 and the 1917 Overland Limited. For not much more money, UP could have used all sixteen, perhaps dedicating four to breakfasts, four to lunches, four to dinners, and four to the coffee shop car.


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