Atlantic Coast Line Breakfast Menu

This menu was used on the Florida Special, a winter-only, all-Pullman train that connected New York City with Miami. With a name dating back to the nineteenth century, the train was Dieselized in 1940, streamlined in 1949, and remained popular up to Amtrak.

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

The cover photo is attractive but obviously staged. The bird on the back of the wicker chair appears to be a blue-and-yellow mackaw, which WIkipedia says is a native of South America. It notes that “small breeding population descended from introduced birds . . . has inhabited Miami-Dade County, Florida, since the mid-1980s.” Perhaps those were birds left over after ACL photo shoots.

The menu offers full breakfasts with seven different entrées priced from $1.65 to $2.35. The menu has a date code of “662,” which I interpret to mean February, 1966. Based on that, multiply prices by 8 to get today’s dollars.


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