The first menu today has a Walter Loos painting that we’ve previously seen inside the 1927 edition of Great Northern’s Call of the Mountains. GN commissioned Loos to make a number of these wildflower paintings; most of the originals were probably displayed in the Glacier Park hotels and copies were later mounted in the spaces between the dining car windows of the 1947 streamlined Empire Builder.
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Inside is a beverage and a la carte menu but no table d’hôte menu, suggesting it was probably used for lunch. Sirloin steak is a dollar. This menu was probably used on the Oriental Limited or another regular train rather than a special tour.
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Today’s second menu features one of Glacier Park’s many waterfalls on the cover. Inside is a menu for a “dinner to the press” on November 17, 1925. The dinner includes Great Northern’s chicken pie — ordinarily advertised as a meal by itself — with appetizers, oyster cocktail, consomme, mushrooms on toast, salad, biscuits, dessert, and coffee.