Picturesque St. Francis River

Although the cover photo of the Saint-François River shows Canadian National tracks, most CN passengers would never see this seen as it was on a branch line from Montreal to Sherbrook, Quebec, continuing to Portland, Maine. CN’s 1956 timetable shows three trains a day going the 99 miles to Sherbrook, one of which went another 195 miles to Portland, plus a fourth train that only went 33 miles to St. Hyacinthe. (Rail fans will recognize St. Hyacinthe as the name of a CN heavyweight sleeping car now in the California Railroad Museum.)

Click image to download a 1.6-MB PDF of this menu.

These trains, even the overnight ones, had only coaches except the train to Portland, which also had a buffet-parlor car (why didn’t the timetable spell it parlour?). The buffet car only went as far as Island Pond, Vermont, where it was detached and put on the return train back to Montreal. That meant it could serve breakfast and lunch eastbound and lunch and dinner westbound.
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This menu doesn’t say what train it was used on, but it almost certainly wasn’t that train as it offered meals characteristic of a full dining car, not a buffet car. Like yesterday’s menu, it is a la carte, but unlike yesterday’s it came with a table d’hôte insert offering trout, salmon, omelet, ham, prime rib, and sirloin steak.

The menu isn’t formally dated, but someone helpfully pencilled “8-13-55 eve. meal.” The back has an ad for CN’s new passenger cars similar to yesterday’s. While yesterday’s says, “Our 359 new cars . . .” this one says only “Our new cars. . . .” That makes me think that yesterday’s menu was older than this one, which is why I dated it 1954.


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  1. I never saw the word “parlour” until Amtrak advertised the “Pacific Parlour Car” on the “Coast Starlight” which was, in reality, the old Hi-Level Lounge Car from the all coach “El Cpaitan”.

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