Many railroads issued menus in series that followed a similar format with changes in photos, text, and graphics. The best-known series is probably the Union Pacific post-war photo menus, which used more than 140 different cover photographs. I’ve attempted to … Continue reading
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I didn’t start Streamliner Memories to sell books, but because I started Streamliner Memories, I ended up writing a book: Romance of the Rails, which will be released Wednesday, October 10. I’ve mostly kept the politics out of this web … Continue reading
In April, 1983, the Rio Grande Railroad stopped running its three-day-a-week Rio Grande Zephyr and allowed Amtrak to run its Chicago-Oakland train over Rio Grande rails between Denver and Ogden. With that change, Amtrak renamed its San Francisco Zephyr to … Continue reading
After the failure of the Union Pacific-Rock Island merger, UP sat on the sidelines as other railroads merged over the next decade and a half. Then, in 1980, the company decided to merge–really, take over–the Missouri Pacific and Western Pacific … Continue reading
At first glance, this menu is bigger and fancier than yesterday’s 1955 menu. The cover is a folder that is blank on the inside; the menu itself is a four-page insert held into the folder with a gold tassel (which … Continue reading
The North Coast Limited gained Slumbercoaches by 1960, their gleaming stainless steel interrupting the train’s otherwise solid two-tone green colors. In addition to the Mainstreeter, the timetable still shows trains 3 and 4 from St. Paul, though now they terminate … Continue reading
Here are two different versions of the same brochure. The first, published when the train was inaugurated in 1951, advertises the Mid-Century Empire Builder. Perhaps because it was no longer mid-century by 1954, when the second brochure was printed, the … Continue reading
A total of 237 dome cars were built during the Silver Age, with Budd making 159 or almost exactly two-thirds. (See table below for a complete list.) Most of these cars still exist–complete lists, histories, and dispositions of the dome … Continue reading
I have a lot of rail memorabilia, but my collection is far from complete, and regrettably I can’t afford to buy everything that comes up on ebay. If you have enjoyed downloading the files posted here, I hope you will … Continue reading
I’ve collected rail memorabilia since 1983, when Amtrak replaced the Rio Grande Zephyr with Superliners, thus ending the last vestiges of the Silver Age of passenger trains in the United States. I now have thousands of different items, nearly all … Continue reading