AARTA 1928 Passenger List

This is a menu cover we’ve seen before, but it’s not a menu. Instead, it’s the passenger list for the 10th annual convention of the American Association of Railroad Ticket Agents. Coincidentally, we’ve also seen a Canadian National menu used for that same convention.

Click image to download a 1.8-MB PDF of this passenger list.

The passenger list names about 25 to 29 people in each of ten different cars. These would probably have been twelve-and-one cars–twelve sections (meaning twelve upper and twelve lower berths) and a drawing room with potentially three more beds, for a total of 27 beds per car–or possibly 14-section sleepers (28 beds). Some of the people on the passenger list were couples–or, in one case, sisters–who may have shared a single berth.


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