Here’s a dinner menu used on the same City of Los Angeles coffee shop car as yesterday’s lunch menu. The cover photo features Las Vegas, which is on the train’s route, while yesterday’s cover was of Mt. Rainier, which is … Continue reading
For most of its life, the City of Los Angeles included both coaches and sleeping cars. For a brief time in the mid-1950s, however, the Union Pacific tried to compete with the Super Chief by making the COLA an all-Pullman … Continue reading
This dinner menu dates from 1965. Though a single card the same size as the 1966 breakfast menu, the smaller print indicates a wider variety of choices. Still, rivals City of Los Angeles and Super Chief/El Capitan continued to use … Continue reading
Like the breakfast menu, the Golden State‘s lunch menu by the mid-1960s had become a single card. This 1967 menu is on pink paper, instead of cream, and is slightly smaller than the 1966 breakfast menu. Company offers the high … Continue reading
This 1966 breakfast menu is all contained on one side of a single card, as opposed to the folders used for 1950s Golden State menus. At least the train has a menu: by April, 1964, passenger ridership had fallen so … Continue reading
Here’s a 1966 dinner menu that might have been used on the same train as yesterday’s lunch menu. Unlike the lunch menu, this is a folder but made of the same glossy paper stock. Click image to download a 1.3-MB … Continue reading
Here’s a Texas Zephyr lunch menu from 1966, the last year the train was in operation. The menu is only a card instead of a folder, reflecting declining patronage, and it is made of glossy paper, which sounds fancy but … Continue reading
The Northern Pacific gave children aboard the North Coast Limited a paper engineer’s hat, while the Great Northern incorporated a Rocky Mountain goat mask into its children’s menu. Some of these are decreased blood flow on the temporal lobes due … Continue reading
On August 22, 1940, Burlington began running the Texas Zephyr between Denver and Dallas. The route was a strange offshoot for the Burlington, which was mainly a Midwestern railroad, and went over Burlington subsidiaries Colorado & Southern and Fort Worth … Continue reading
This 1958 menu from the the Mid-Century Empire Builder‘s Ranch Car is decorated to look like the hide of a pinto horse (similar to the pattern used on upholstery in the Ranch Car). The letters “The Ranch” closely resemble those … Continue reading
