This menu is in the same series as the ones posted a few days ago, only it is from 1968 after Atlantic Coast Line merged with Seaboard Air Line to form Seaboard Coast Line. It was used on the former … Continue reading
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As the passenger business faded in the late 1960s, many dining car dinner menus shrank to offer just three or four main entrées. But this one from 1967 included five table d’hôte dinners ranging from fish to steak; three “dinner … Continue reading
In addition to the usual assortment of eggs and meats, this 1966 menu offers a “Deep South Breakfast” consisting of Virginia-cured ham, two eggs, and hominy grits. The breakfast also came with fruit juice or cereal (which was hardly a … Continue reading
Here are two more menus from the Ira Silverman Collection. These were used on the Florida Special, a winter-only all-Pullman train (in contrast to the Champion that initially was coach-only but later added sleeping cars). Like the Champion, the Florida … Continue reading
Ira Silverman is a railfan who actually rode the trains whose menus he collected. He later donated 238 of those menus to the Northwestern University library. I’m posting a few here to fill out the Atlantic Coast Line series of … Continue reading
While the Florida Special, whose menus were presented here yesterday and the day before, was a winter-only train, by 1966 Atlantic Coast Line’s premiere year-found train was the Champion. Initially a coach-only streamliner, by 1941 ACL added heavyweight Pullmans. Click … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s breakfast menu, this lunch menu was also used in 1966 on the Florida Special. This was a winter-only train and, although fully streamlined in 1949, depended on cars from other railroads whose patronage declined in the winter to … Continue reading
This menu was used on the Florida Special, a winter-only, all-Pullman train that connected New York City with Miami. With a name dating back to the nineteenth century, the train was Dieselized in 1940, streamlined in 1949, and remained popular … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a dinner menu for the Golden State Limited from about 1940 and one for the … Continue reading
For most of its history, the San Francisco-Los Angeles Lark left its respective terminals at 9 pm and arrived at the other end at 9 am. That didn’t leave much time for dinner, yet the train carried a massive, three-unit … Continue reading