Here is the first new Union Pacific wraparound-photo menus I’ve seen in more than a year. It shows the University of Kansas City, today known as the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Originally a private school, the university didn’t become part … Continue reading
Union Pacific issued more dining car menus than any other railroad. It had plenty before World War II, but really cranked them out after the war. My count shows more than 50 menus in various series before the war and … Continue reading
Union Pacific’s 1962 calendar that I’ve previously shown here had four eastern scenes: the Lincoln Memorial, Mount Vernon, a Midwestern farm, and Worcester, Vermont. So I was eager to see what photos would replace these in the western edition of … Continue reading
We’ve seen Howard Fogg’s portrayal of the Golden Spike ceremony on a breakfast menu folder. This is the same painting on a breakfast menu card. Like most of the breakfast and lunch menus I’ve shown in the last couple of … Continue reading
Union Pacific liked big, powerful locomotives, and in 1963 it asked Alco, General Electric, and General Motors to design Diesels that could produce at least 5,000 horsepower. Alco responded with the Alco Century 855, the most powerful Diesel built up … Continue reading
Before the Union Pacific Railroad, and long before Bonneville Dam, there was a small portage railroad to get around some rapids in the Columbia River at what is now called Cascade Locks. Howard Fogg portrays this portage railroad in this … Continue reading
Here’s a menu that was missing from my collection but that I had documented in the California Railroad Museum’s collection. Now I’ve acquired one of my own. The interior says this menu was used on the City of San Francisco, … Continue reading
The Union Pacific would celebrate the centennial of its Last Spike ceremony in 1969. Perhaps in an effort to preempt this, Northern Pacific put a picture of its own Last Spike train on the cover of its menus in 1963, … Continue reading
Although Union Pacific “rebooted” its color wrap-around menu series with new photographs in 1970, it continued to use the Howard Fogg centennial menus. This menu is dated April, 1971, the last month before Amtrak took over. Although Fogg did sixteen … Continue reading
After the railroad’s 1969 centennial, Union Pacific issued a menu cover featuring the view from Point Imperial on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. This pre-centennial menu has a similar view, but with people in the foreground. The graphic … Continue reading
