The Shasta-Cascade Wonderland Area

It’s 1946, and the Southern Pacific is clearly off of wartime rationing as this menu has far more options than yesterday’s 1943 menu. These include four table d’hôte dinners (fish, braised beef, chicken marengo, and lamb), two plate dinners (halibut or braised beef), and a much more extensive a la carte menu. Multiply prices by 13 to get today’s dollars.

Click image to download a 1.4-MB PDF of this menu.

The cover photo of Mount Shasta framed by trees in fall colors is one of the better ones in this series of Southern Pacific menus. So far I’ve identified fourteen menus in this series, which I call the “8-1/2×11” series because the menus are printed on slightly heavy-duty sheets of standard-sized paper and folded in half.

I’m working on a comprehensive list of Burlington, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, Great Northern, Milwaukee Road, Northern Pacific, Rio Grande, Santa Fe, Southern Pacific, and Spokane, Portland & Seattle menu series to supplement the one I’ve made for Union Pacific. I’ll post this list in a few months.


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