Fifty Candles for Western Pacific

Railroads like to write their own histories so they can leave out all the scandals, swindles, bankruptcies, and other messy details. But this one — a reprint from Western Pacific‘s employee magazine — is pretty honest. George Gould, who controlled the Wabash, Missouri Pacific, and Rio Grande, decided to break Southern Pacific’s monopoly to the Bay Area. Incorporated in 1903 (thus celebrating its 50th anniversary in 1953), Western Pacific reached Oakland in 1909 but ended up costing almost twice the original estimates, not only sending it into bankruptcy in 1915 but leading Gould to lose the rest of his railroad empire.

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Mission Dolores Menu

This Western Pacific menu was used on a 1951 Prairie Farmer tour. I suspect that, like some Great Northern menus, this menu cover was specifically used for tour groups and wasn’t used for ordinary dining car passengers. Given the date, the menu was almost certainly used aboard the California Zephyr, but it doesn’t mention the train name.

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The image on the cover is Mission San Francisco de Asís, more commonly known as Mission Dolores. Originally built in 1776, it was restored in 1917 and looks today pretty much as it does on this menu cover. Continue reading

Mount Sopris & Crystal River 1967 Menu

Here is yet another view of Sopris Peak and the Crystal River, this one on one of Rio Grande’s wraparound photo menus. I’ve been to Colorado many times, but had never heard of the Crystal River until a Streamliner Memories reader sent me the scans for three different menus (1948, yesterday’s 1956, and this one) featuring the river.

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Sadly, someone has noted at the bottom of the menu interior that this menu was used on “Last Run of D&RGW No 8, the Prospector, Salt Lake City to Denver, Sunday, May 28, 1967.” I hope they had the sirloin steak ($3.75) or mountain trout ($3.50) dinner. Multiply prices by eight to get today’s dollars.

Crystal River 1956 Dinner Menu

Here’s a view of the Crystal River and Mount Sopris (which the menu calls Sopris Peak) in Rio Grande’s front-cover photo series. “The sparkling Crystal River is but one of a number of streams in the area known to trout fishermen the country over,” says the back cover, “such fabulous streams as the Frying Pan, the Roaring Fork, the Eagle, the White and, of course, the Colorado, to which the others are all tributary.”

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This menu offered trout, corned beef and cabbage, pork tenderloin, Rio Grande steak and mushrooms, and roast leg of lamb. The steak was $3.50 and the other meals ranged from $2.20 for the corned beef to $2.90 for the lamb. Multiply prices by ten to get today’s dollars. Scans of this menu were contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader.

Royal Gorge Breakfast & Lunch Menus

We’ve previously seen a 1951 menu of this style featuring a train in the Royal Gorge, but that menu showed a heavyweight train pulled by Diesels in Rio Grande’s black with yellow stripes color scheme. Today’s menus from 1953 and 1954 obviously show a streamlined train with Diesels in yellow with black stripes colors.

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This is the color scheme Rio Grande settled on after trying silver with an orange-yellow nose and the black with yellow nose and stripes schemes. Later, Rio Grande simplified this color scheme by merging the three black pinstripes into one broad black stripe. (All four can be seen in this 2012 post.) Continue reading

Crystal River 1948 Breakfast Menu

This menu cover features Mount Sopris behind the Crystal River, a 40-mile-long stream that feeds into the Roaring Fork River at Carbondale, which in turn feeds into the Colorado at Glenwood Springs. “In the romantic Rocky Mountains,” the back cover explains, “the bored urbanite finds solace from the mad metropolitan whirl, amid myriad scenes of unusurpassed [sic] splendor.” Scans of this menu were contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader, who is not responsible for the spelling error.

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This particular menu was used for members of the National Association [of] Postal Supervisors on their way to a 1948 convention in Los Angeles via the Royal Gorge Route. The breakfast features fish, omelette, or ham or bacon with eggs with the usual accompaniments. Unusually for a tour menu, it is priced at $1.50, or about $16 in today’s money.

Beauty Queens Lunch Menu

As noted on the back of this menu, Colorado aspens, more properly known as quaking aspens, are known both for turning gold in the fall and for their leaves that tremble in the gentlest breeze. The menu doesn’t say so, but this characteristic is even memorialized in their scientific name, Populus tremuloides.

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Like yesterday’s menu, this was used on “Seely Rotary Train No. 2,” which took the Moffat Tunnel route on June 2, 1947. “Soon after luncheon we will be arriving in Salt Lake City,” says the menu. Since the regularly scheduled trains arrived in Salt Lake at 8:30 am and 11:45 pm, this was a special train named for Hart Seely, a New York newspaper publisher who was also a district governor of Rotary Club. Continue reading

Yampah Mineral Hot Springs

Glenwood Springs is featured on the cover of this 1947 menu. The back cover explains that spring waters emerge from the ground at 127 degrees and have to be cooled with “clear, cold mountain water” to 84 degrees for use in the swimming pool. The pool in the cover photo looks big, but today it has been expanded to be more than 400 feet long.

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This menu was used for a special train from upstate New York to San Francisco for the 1947 Rotary International Convention. The trip was organized by newspaper owner Hart Seely, who we previously met when he organized a trip to a 1941 Rotary convention in Denver. On this menu, he notes that tour members slept through the Moffat Tunnel, excusing it by saying “we couldn’t have enjoyed the high spots of Denver and at the same time see the black spots of the Moffat Tunnel.” Of course, they missed much more scenery than the black of the Moffat Tunnel, but maybe they got to see it on the return trip. Continue reading

Rio Grande’s Narrow-Gauge Dome Car

Before it purchased dome cars for the California Zephyr and other streamlined trains, the Rio Grande made a narrow-gauge dome car, of sorts, for its scenic line between Durango and Silverton. The car had a glass roof with open sides that had shades that could be lowered to protect against the sun or rain.

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San Juan Dude Ranch

Here’s another menu I bought thinking I didn’t already have one when it turned out I did. Worse, like this one, the one I already had is a 1946 lunch menu. The good news is this one is a normal priced menu, while the previous one I showed is an unpriced menu from a convention tour, which I think is less interesting.

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The menu for the convention group offered a choice of grilled fish, chicken fricasse, and cold lunch meats. The fish and cold lunch meats are also on today’s menu along with baked macaroni and diced ham, calf’s liver saute, and a creamed chicken sandwich. Diners could also choose from mountain trout, seven sandwiches, eggs and omelettes, salads, and various other items from the a la carte side. Continue reading