We’ve seen the cover illustration of the two locomotives before on a postcard advertising the Texas Special (represented by the locomotive with the star on the nose) and the Meteor (represented by the locomotive with the Frisco logo on the nose). This menu is obviously only for the former train.

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The Diesels date this to sometime between 1947, when the heavyweight Texas Special was replaced with a Diesel-powered streamlined train, and 1959, when Frisco stopped operating its share of the St. Louis-San Antonio train, leaving M-K-T to run the train from Kansas City to San Antonio.

Like yesterday’s, the inside doesn’t have an actual menu printed on it, but it does have some trim lines printed in red filagree. In fact, those lines exactly match those on yesterday’s menu, suggesting that both menus date from 1947 or later. Since Frisco stopped using the Frisco Faster Freight logo that is on the back of yesterday’s menu by around 1952, this narrows down the dates a bit further.