Union Pacific issued at least three menus featuring San Francisco’s Nob Hill on the cover. This is one of the two that were among my missing menus. This particular menu was used on a 1963 “Caribou Country Special,” a special train offered by the Southern Pacific.

Click image to download a 1.3-MB PDF of this menu.

I found a short article in the August 12, 1957 Railway Age about a Caribou Country Special offered by the Western Pacific from San Francisco to Prince George, British Columbia. The article said 185 passengers paid about $185 each (about $1,650 in today’s dollars) for the trip. Perhaps Southern Pacific decided to imitate that trip in 1963.

Although this menu was used in 1963, the cover photo was probably taken in 1957. The newest cars in the photo are the two 1957 Ford Fairlanes that happen to be side-by-side to the left of the cable car. The white convertible parked in front of the Huntington Hotel on the other side of the street is a 1940 Delahaye, a French brand that made some of the most beautiful cars in the world before WWII.

With this menu, I now have 138 of the 142 Union Pacific post-war color photo menus that I’ve been able to identify. The only menus still missing are the third Nob Hill menu (which also has a 1957 Ford in the picture), a menu showing the University of Idaho, Caldwell, and two Sun Valley menus, one showing horses and the other with Van Johnson and Esther Williams by the Sun Valley swimming pool. I’ve previously shown the latter two menus, but they were made from images I downloaded from Waterlevel.com.

Based on all of the information I’ve been able to gather from Union Pacific’s menus, I contributed a twelve-page article to the Autumn, 2018 issue of Union Pacific Historical Society’s quarterly magazine, The Streamliner. The article includes images of about a dozen menus taken from this web site. Although you can get all the information here — spread over some 250 posts — if you want the article, you can order the issue from the Historical Society for $13.