La Fonda Lunch Menu for 1937 Banner Tour

A few weeks ago, I presented some menus from a 1937 American Express Banner Tour, noting that the tour had started by taking the Santa Fe from Chicago to Los Angeles. The tour must have taken an “Indian Detour” to the city of Santa Fe, because one of the menus in the collection was from the La Fonda. That hotel was owned by the Santa Fe Railway and leased to Fred Harvey.

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This menu is pretty simple, offering a choice of halibut, calf’s liver, chicken a la king, or a cold plate. It seems like every hotel, lodge, and dining car of the era served tour groups these or similar items. While each facility would put their own twist on them, I bet tour guests got pretty tired of the limited selections.

Southern Railway 1966 Lunch Menu

Just a few months ago, we had a Southern lunch menu with a fruit basket on the cover like this one, but the cover was printed in black and green This one has the addition of a reddish-orange color. It also specifies that it was used aboard Southern’s premiere train, the Crescent.


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The other menu had text on the back referring to Southern’s 1966 accomplishments, indicating that it must have been for 1967 or later. It also had what appears to be a 1970 date code. This one has no date code, but the text on the back refers to 1965 accomplishments. So I’m dating it to 1966. Continue reading

California Zephyr Postcards

The three railroads that operated the California Zephyr issued numerous postcards in the two decades that train ran. Here are a few we haven’t seen before.


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The Alco locomotives shown in this photo of east- and west-bound Zephyrs passing one another dates this to early in the train’s history. When on time, the trains met at Grizzly Siding in Glenwood Canyon. Continue reading

More Western Pacific Postcards

Today our postcard journey on the Western Pacific takes us east of the Sierra Nevada and back in time to the era of lithographic postcards.

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This card says “near Pilot, Nevada.” If it was ever anything more than a railroad siding, Pilot Nevada no longer exists. Interstate 80 parallels the railroad today. Continue reading

Real Photo Postcards of Feather River Canyon

All but one of yesterday’s postcards were lithographically printed based on black-and-white photos. Today’s cards are black-and-white photos themselves. I usually prefer color, but after studying the often muddy and sometimes heavily retouched pictures from yesterday there’s something refreshing and crisp about these black-and-white photos.

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The caption says “near Oroville,” so this is the lower canyon, and probably is flooded today by Oroville Dam. The caption also says “on line of WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD,” so the card was probably issued with WP’s help or sponsorship. Continue reading

A Postcard Journey on the Western Pacific

The Western Pacific Railroad completed its line from Salt Lake City to Oakland in 1909, just two years after the Post Office allowed people to send postcards with messages written on the back. WP encouraged postcard companies to publish cards featuring the railroad. Today and for the next couple of days I’ll present some of those postcards from the pre-California Zephyr era.


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This card showing WP’s Oakland station is dated 1915. As the postmark notes, that was the year of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, the one for which Union Pacific built a life-size replica of Old Faithful Inn. The Oakland depot still exists. This postcard not only is not railroad issue, the back has the slogan, “On the road a a thousand wonders,” which was a Southern Pacific theme. Continue reading

Pikes Peak Cog Railway

The 1949 Detroit conventioneer who collected the menus and timetables either had time when laying over in Denver to take a trip down to Colorado Springs or picked up this brochure for future reference. The cog railway trip took 4-1/2 hours, and when added to the time required to get to and from Colorado Springs, taking the trip would have been possible only if the charter train spent an entire day in Denver.

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Rio Grande June 1949 Timetable

This timetable was picked up the same Detroit Knights Templar traveler who also collected Southern Pacific menus and timetables and one New York Central menu. The actual Rio Grande timetables in this publication fill only five of the 16 pages, with the rest used for connecting lines, fares, a centerfold map, lists of agents, and advertising.

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Most prominent among the ads are three full pages celebrating the then-new California Zephyr. Although the Zephyr isn’t shown on either of the front cover photos, two photos on the back show exterior views of the train in Glenwood Canyon while inside are cutaway drawings of the three kinds of dome cars and the diner. Continue reading

More Conventioneer Menus

These three menus were used on the train chartered for the Detroit Knights Templar for their September 1949 journey to the mason’s convention in San Francisco. We’ve seen the covers before but not the interiors.

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First is a breakfast menu showing Utah’s state capitol. EntrĂ©es featured fish, an omelette with diced ham, or eggs with bacon or sausage. Yesterday’s “course of empire” menu had exactly the same entrĂ©es so must have been used the same day. Continue reading

The Course of Empire Breakfast Menu

Here’s a Rio Grande menu in the glued-on photo series that we haven’t seen before. It features the Geneva Steel mill that was built in Utah with federal funds during World War II. After the war, the federal government sold it to U.S. Steel for about a third of its value mainly because no other company had the resources to bid on it.

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