Coffee Shop Menus

Posted on by July 2, 2019
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Today’s first menu was used on café-lounge cars of Portland Rose. In 1964, when the first menu was issued, the Rose went from Portland to Chicago under three different train numbers. This menu says it for trains 17 and 18, which was the Rose‘s designation between Portland and Green River, Wyoming.


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Between Green River and Omaha, the train numbers changed to 7 & 8, which means it was merged with a train that had come from Los Angeles (or was split from a train going to Los Angeles). That train was numbered 5 & 6 between Los Angeles and Ogden, then changed to 7 & 8 from Ogden to Omaha. The next two menus from 1965 are marked for trains 7 & 8, so they could have been used on the Ogden leg or while the train was merged with the Rose. Continue reading →

New Fisherman’s Wharf-Coit Tower Menu

Posted on by July 2, 2019
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Here is a previously unknown menu photo that I found just a few weeks ago. The photograph looks very much like the one of Fisherman’s Wharf shown yesterday, but this photo is taken from a slightly different angle at a different time of day and almost certainly a later year. I can only find one boat that is in both photos, the Morning Star, which is in the left foreground if this photo.

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More important, it appears that Tarantino’s Restaurant was remodeled between the two photos. On the cover of a 1950s Tarantino’s menu, the restaurant looks like it did in yesterday’s photo, whereas in recent photos it looks like today’s menu, which means today’s is the more recent photo. Unfortunately, it is also not as nicely lit, which is probably why the railroads kept using the other one as I have a menu with that photo dated 1967. Continue reading →

Standard Diner Brunch Menus

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I’ve never heard of a brunch menu for a dining car, but these list themselves as “standard diner brunch menus” as if they were everyday occurrences. The small print says they were used on trains 457 & 458, which were Union Pacific’s contribution to the Portland-Seattle pool trains. Train 457 left Portland at 9:30 am and arrived in Seattle at 1:50 pm, so brunch might be an appropriate meal. Train 458 left Seattle at 5:00 pm and arrived in Portland at 9:15 pm, so a regular dinner menu would have been more appropriate.

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I usually think of brunch today as a somewhat more elaborate breakfast. But these menus (which are identical on the menu side) offer a choice between ordinary breakfasts — various egg dishes, French toast, or griddle cakes — and ordinary lunches — red snapper, chicken supreme, hot beef sandwich, and other sandwiches including a hamburger. Continue reading →

City of Los Angeles Menus

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We’ve seen these menu covers before and we’ve seen the insides before, or at least interiors very much like these. These are dinner menus used in the dome-diner era, which means they offer five table d’hôte meals and no a la carte.


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The Pacific Grove menu is from 1964 and offered the charcoal-broiled steak dinner for $5.25 (about $43 today) plus lake trout, veal cutlets, charcoal-broiled lamb chops, and a deluxe dinner salad. At $3.35 (about $27.50 today), the salad is the least-expensive item on the menu other than a small bottle of wine for $1 (about $8.50). Continue reading →

Las Vegas Holiday Special

Posted on by July 2, 2019
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We’ve seen this cover photo before on a 1970 menu. The difference between that cover and this one from 1965 is that this one mentions that Union Pacific ran a train between Los Angeles and Las Vegas called the Las Vegas Holiday Special. This train ran between 1961 (replacing the ill-fated City of Las Vegas) and 1968 and made (as the menu notes) a “daytime round trip between Los Angeles and Las Vegas daily during the summer and holiday seasons and week-end service at other times.”


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This menu wasn’t used on that train, however. Instead, it was a special train for representatives of the American National Insurance Company going to the company’s annual convention in Las Vegas. Unusually for Union Pacific menus, the menu itself is in a typewriter font but offers standard breakfast fare.

Nob Hill Dinner Menu

Posted on by April 5, 2023
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Union Pacific issued at least three menus featuring San Francisco’s Nob Hill on the cover. This is one of the two that were among my missing menus. This particular menu was used on a 1963 “Caribou Country Special,” a special train offered by the Southern Pacific.


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I found a short article in the August 12, 1957 Railway Age about a Caribou Country Special offered by the Western Pacific from San Francisco to Prince George, British Columbia. The article said 185 passengers paid about $185 each (about $1,650 in today’s dollars) for the trip. Perhaps Southern Pacific decided to imitate that trip in 1963. Continue reading →

More City of Los Angeles Dinner Menus

Posted on by July 2, 2019
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Here are some more menus with non-wraparound San Francisco scenes that were used on the City of Los Angeles. These two feature the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Note that the Bay Bridge photo is the same as used on wraparound menus beginning in 1947 but cropped differently. Though unique to this style of menu, the Golden Gate photo was taken just a few steps away from a photo used on a wraparound menu.


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City of Los Angeles Dinner Menus

Posted on by July 2, 2019
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An earlier post noted that “as used by Union Pacific,” non-wraparound photo menus after 1954 were all dinner menus with table d’hôte only. However, we’ve seen that Southern Pacific used the Bay Bridge, Fisherman’s Wharf, and Carmel Bay menus for both tour groups and coffee shop service.


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1962 Dinner Menus

Posted on by July 2, 2019
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We’ve seen this cover before on a City of Los Angeles menu. While it wasn’t unusual for Union Pacific to put photos of, say, Sun Valley on Los Angeles trains or Zion on menus for Portland trains, usually photos of cities were put on menus for trains going to that city.

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This one, however, is a dinner menu for the City of Portland. Dated November, 1962, it departs from the table d’hôte-only meals used on many menus of that era, and instead has both a la carte and table d’hôte sides. This menu is also unusual in that it has no graphics other than photo on the cover. The other menu cover showing Wilshire Boulevard has a drawing of, for some reason, a covered wagon. Continue reading →

Iron Horse Tour

Posted on by July 2, 2019
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On Labor Day Weekend in 1960, the Railroad Club of Chicago sponsored an Iron Horse Tour from Chicago to Ogden that featured Burlington 5632 and Union Pacific 844. Presumably, the Burlington handled the train to Omaha while UP carried it the rest of the way.

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This is a breakfast menu that was used on that tour. The unpriced menu offers ham, bacon, or sausage with eggs, corned beef hash, or Spanish omelet. Continue reading →