1931 Grand Canyon Lodge Lunch Menu

This is the only menu in the Art Nouveau series that shows a part of one of Union Pacific’s lodges, even if it is only a wall. There’s good reason for this: the lodge in Bryce is deep in a forest with little or no view, and while Zion Lodge has a view, it is nowhere near as spectacular as other parts of the park. But the Grand Canyon Lodge, as this menu suggests, offered (and still offers) tremendous views of the canyon.

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Both the front and back covers of this menu feature “natural color photographs” taken by Frank G. Fulton, the same photographer who took the cover photo of the Great White Throne on a 1935 menu. The back cover photo on this menu is taken from almost the same spot as the photo on a 1952 wrap-around color photo menu, which the caption calls Cape Royal. Continue reading

Milwaukee Road Miscellany

Here are few items from the Milwaukee Road. One is from my collection, but most are just images I found on the web.

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First is this ticket envelope advertising the Gallatin Gateway route to Yellowstone Park. It is undated; inside, someone has handwritten “Leo Newhouse, Tour Conductor” and “Dearborn Station 9:05 am.” The Milwaukee Road didn’t use Dearborn Station, but it is possible someone took a Milwaukee Road train from Minnesota or Wisconsin to Chicago to catch a Santa Fe tour to the Grand Canyon or somewhere else in the Southwest. Continue reading

Happy Touring!

This 1968 brochure never once mentions Union Pacific, but the tours it describes appear to be those in the UP Summer Tours booklet. They include tours to California, the Pacific Northwest/Canadian Rockies, Utah-Arizona, Yellowstone, Colorado, and Alaska.

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“Folders are available giving complete information on each tour program with cost,” says the brochure. Interested people were invited to contact their travel agent or the Milwaukee Road’s passenger service manager in Chicago. Continue reading

Pacific Northwest Vacation Suggestions

The Milwaukee Road’s Pacific Northwest was the home of giant women at least 1,000-feet tall, at least judging by the back cover of this brochure. The image is meant to convey the feeling of being “on top of the world,” but in fact it just looks grotesque.

Click image to download a 15.3-MB PDF of this 32-page booklet.
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The rest of the brochure is more inviting, showing photos of Yellowstone, Butte, Spokane, Seattle, Mt. Rainier, Portland, and other Northwest sights. The Milwaukee Road didn’t go to Portland, but that didn’t stop it from also advertising Alaska, California, and the Canadian Rockies.

Four Generations on the Line

The Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road–the earliest predecessor of the Milwaukee Roads–operated its first train in 1850. To celebrate the centennial of that event, the Milwaukee issued this hardbound book in 1950. The book presents the history of the road as seen through the eyes of a farmer (1850-1875), a telegraph operator (1875-1900), a merchant (1900-1925), and a railroad employee (1925-1950), all fictitious of course.

Click image to download a 20.4-MB PDF of this 52-page book.

In addition to reporting on the growth and history of the railroad, the book also notes other historic events, such as giving women the right to vote in 1920 and the 6.9 Montana earthquake of 1925. It also observes that it was once known as the St. Paul Road and only became known as the Milwaukee Road after 1927. Continue reading

Glimpses of Vacationland

“No matter how your hopes may reach out to distant places and strange scenes–no matter what longing dreams of wonderlands beyond the humdrum daily life
may be yours–here is a swift road that will sweep you away to your longed-for adventureland,” begins this 1930 booklet. The booklet then describes, in similarly flowery language, all of the major sights and stops on the Milwaukee’s route from Chicago to Seattle, including the Upper Mississippi, Dakota scenery, Gallatin Gateway, and the Cascades, among others. Curiously, Sixteen-Mile Canyon, one of major icons of the Milwaukee’s Puget Sound Extension, isn’t mentioned.

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“The most wonderfully equipped train that ever rode the rails is the new Olympian,” the booklet adds. “New, unique, electrified and completely equipped with silent roller bearings, it offers the smoothest and most comfortable ride in the history of American railroad transportation.” Though the Olympian‘s basic services could also be found on the Empire Builder and North Coast Limited, the Milwaukee’s orange-and-maroon paint scheme (not mentioned in this booklet), roller bearings, and electric locomotives over the Rockies and Cascades did make its trains special.

The Washington-Sunset Route

This booklet advertises the New Orleans connection between the Sunset Limited and Crescent, allowing passengers to go from coast to coast. As mentioned here previously, this “Washington-Sunset Route” was advertised from 1946 to 1949 and again from 1954 to 1956.

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Views of the Coast & Valley Route

Here we have the Alex Dulfer Kodachrome version of the packet of Coast and Valley photos. Many of these seem to be deliberate re-creations of the photos included in the National Color Press folio: photos of the Golden Gate Bridge, Yosemite Falls, Tehachapi Loop, and Cypress Point all seem to have been taken at nearly the same spots.

Click image to download a 14.1-MB PDF of this folio.

At the same time, this folio only shares three photos with the Dulfer Shasta and Overland packets: the same three as those two share with each other, the Golden Gate, Bay Bridge, and boats at Fisherman’s Wharf. So people willing to pay $1 for this folio (about $10 in today’s money) wouldn’t get as many duplicates as were found in the National Color Press packages. Continue reading

Views of the Overland Route

Here is Alex Dulfer’s version of sixteen color photos for the Overland Route. Like the Shasta Route photos, they are better quality than the National Color Press photos, or at least they have aged better.

Click image to download a 14.8-MB PDF of this photo packet.

Three of the photos — of the Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman’s Wharf, and Bay Bridge — are identical to photos in the Shasta Route set. Other photos correspond to ones in the National Color Press Overland Route set: the Mormon Temple, Lucin Cutoff, Palisade Canyon, Reno, Lake Tahoe, California’s capitol building — but they are taken from different angles and different times of the day. Instead of photos of Yosemite Park and giant sequoias, this packet has photos of San Francisco’s Chinatown, the Truckee River, and Virginia City. Continue reading

Views of the Shasta Route

Some time after 1948 — I’m guessing around 1950 — a company called Alex Dulfer Lithographing issued a new set of 16 color photos of the Shasta Route. Like the National Color Press set, these would have been sold in train stations and on board Southern Pacific trains. Unlike the National Color Press set, the colors in these photos appear much more realistic.

Click image to download a 16.5-MB PDF of this photo set.

Also unlike my version of the National Color Press edition, this one includes an actual photo of a train, which of course is the Shasta Daylight by Odell Lake, perhaps Southern Pacific’s favorite spot to photograph the train. Since the train began service in 1949, it wouldn’t have been available to include in the 1948 photo set. Continue reading