Menu for the Ambassador

Featuring the Lincoln Memorial on the cover, this menu was used on the Ambassador, B&O’s train connecting Baltimore with Detroit. The back of the menu advertises “another new B&O feature: Slumbercoaches on the Columbian.” The B&O introduced Slumbercoaches in 1958, so the menu must be from that year or shortly after.

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The menu offered table d’hôte meals of Long Island scallops, tomato omelet, grilled chicken, beef pot roast, or sirloin steak, the latter of which cost $4.75 (which would be $42 today). The a la carte side included nine sandwiches and five salads. The menu doesn’t say what meal it was for, but considering the Ambassador left its terminal cities in the early evening and arrived in the morning, it would have to be dinner.


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