Canadian National’s streamlined Super Continental was inaugurated on April 24, 1955, which just happened to be the day this timetable went into effect. The back cover ad brags that the train was “Dieselized all the way” and that it provided … Continue reading
Like the 1949 timetable shown here a few days ago, this one has 88 pages. CN would continue to publish 88-page timetables for about another year. Click image to download a 57.1-MB PDF of this 88-page timetable. The back cover … Continue reading
Here are a couple of menus whose cover pictures we’ve seen before. First is one showing golfers at the 14th tee, which is on a peninsula in Lac Beauvert. Previously we’ve seen a 1954 lunch menu with this photo; this … Continue reading
Nova Scotia’s Pictou Lodge was built in 1926 and quickly purchased by Canadian National, which operated it as a summer resort. The hotel still existed through 2022, but sadly it was “permanently closed” due to 2022 damage from Hurricane Fiona. … Continue reading
In about 1949, some dunderhead at CN replaced the beautiful photographs that graced many of the railroad’s dining car menus with a boring geometric design and an interior theme of “meals on wheels.” I previously called a 1949 breakfast menu … Continue reading
At 88 pages, this is one of the longest timetables I’ve ever seen, matched only by other Canadian National timetables of the 1940s and early 1950s. This might be expected as Canadian National bragged that it was North America’s largest … Continue reading
This is part of the same menu series as yesterday’s Rocky Mountains menu. The CN menu series page also shows menu covers for British Columbia, western Canada, Ontario, and the Maritimes, so I speculated that there must be one in … Continue reading
The Canadian National menu series page lists this as a “missing menu.” Fortunately, Brian Leiteritz was able to fill in the gap. Click image to download a 1.4-MB PDF of this menu. The menus in this series — British Columbia, … Continue reading
Here’s a Jasper Lodge menu we haven’t seen before. It shows a golfer taking a second or third shot to the green. Jasper’s golf course was designed by Stanley Thompson, who designed a total of 178 golf courses, mostly in … Continue reading
We’ve seen these menu covers before, but they came with the breakfast menus presented here yesterday so I’m showing them here since the interiors are different. Like yesterday’s menus, these were used during wartime, so they provide a contrast with … Continue reading
