The El Escalante Hotel menus shown in the last two days, whose covers we hadn’t seen before, came with these three menus whose covers we have seen before. I’m including with them the envelope that could have been used (but … Continue reading
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Our Detroit knight collected one more item on his trip back from the 1949 mason’s convention: a combination itinerary-map from the Santa Fe. The itinerary has room for a nineteen-leg trip, with spaces for the railroad, train number, dates, arrival … Continue reading
Seven years ago, I noted the strange fact that the North Coast Limited went over the Chicago & North Western between 1911 and 1918. This is peculiar because Northern Pacific owned almost half of the Burlington and for most of … Continue reading
Whoever collected the maps, timetables, and other items from the trip from Detroit to the San Francisco convention also picked up these two doilies, either from the train from Ogden to Oakland or San Francisco/Oakland to Los Angeles. Click image … Continue reading
Lunch on August 24 featured gaffelbiters (pickled herring), lobster on the half shell, and honeycomb tripe. We’ve seen this cover photo before on a Banff Springs Hotel menu. Click image to download a 924-KB PDF of this menu. Lunch for … Continue reading
No doubt because staterooms were small, many passengers on the Empress of Scotland checked larger pieces of luggage into a baggage room. For a few hours a day, the room was open so that passengers could get a change of … Continue reading
To return to Canada, Ms. Hruska left Liverpool on August 20, 1954. She kept this programme, one of which was printed for every day of the voyage, for August 20. It reveals that the trip from Liverpool to Montreal wasn’t … Continue reading
On June 29, 1954, Helen Hruska boarded the Empress of Scotland on Montreal for a seven-day voyage to Liverpool. She returned on the same ship, leaving Liverpool on August 20. I don’t know whether she had done this before, but … Continue reading
Here’s a beautiful photo of Mount Athabaska, near the Columbia Icefield, on a Canadian National menu. The car in the foreground looks like it was made in around 1940, but the menu is from 1953. It says it was for … Continue reading
California Zephyr passengers were greeted with this card on their tables when they sat down to eat in the dining car. Note that the printing uses green ink but they took the trouble to print one letter in red, giving … Continue reading