These little flyers were inserted in the Frisco Lines and Ozark menus presented here a couple of days ago, but that must have been done by some other rail collector as the 1967 dates on these flyers doesn’t match the dates when the menus would have been issued. Since those menus (or menu blanks) both had images of steam locomotives, Frisco would not have used them after 1952, when it was fully Dieselized.

Click image to download a 141-KB PDF of this flyer.

The first flyer is actually an advertisement for the buffet car, not a buffet car menu itself. It lists four entrées plus a few other items.

Click image to download a 168-KB PDF of this menu.

The second flyer has the same items as are on the advertising flyer plus several more. These include salad, potatoes, bread and butter, fruit cocktail, alcoholic beverages, playing cards, cigarettes, and aspirin. Both are dated 1967 though the menu seems to have been printed in January and the advertising flyer in April.

I don’t have a 1967 Frisco timetable, but the 1965 timetable lists only two trains with a buffet car: the St. Louis-Oklahoma City Oklahoman and the Kansas City-Birmingham Southland. These trains met in Springfield, Missouri, in mid-afternoon, allowing passengers to go between Oklahoma City and Birmingham, St. Louis and Birmingham, Kansas City and St. Louis, or Kansas City and Oklahoma City.

Frisco would not have been the most direct route for some of these connections, but it is interesting that the railroad timed all of its main westbound and eastbound trains to stop in Springfield at the same time to allow such transfers. As of 1965, it offered only one other passenger service, a mixed train between Kansas City and Clinton, Missouri.