We’ve seen Thanksgiving menus aboard UP City trains that only offered the traditional roast turkey as an entrée (but otherwise were very elegant). Here is a City of San Francisco Christmas menu that offers a choice of entrées: sole, pork … Continue reading
We’ve seen pocket timetables such as this one used for commuter trains or in corridors that have several trains a day. Santa Fe also issued timetable cards for individual trains. This is the first time I’ve seen a pocket timetable … Continue reading
The City of Portland was the first transcontinental streamliner that the Union Pacific put into daily service, starting on February 15, 1947. This means it was in daily service when this menu was issued in April, 1947. Click image to … Continue reading
The City of Portland was not yet on a daily schedule when this menu was issued in November, 1946. In fact, it operated just five times a month each way between Chicago and Portland. Click image to download a 376-KB … Continue reading
This 13-1/2″x21″ desk pad is made of the same material as blotters, indicating it was made for use during the fountain pen era. Since “domeliner” dates it to no earlier than 1954, and it is likely that the growing use … Continue reading
This booklet shows that the M-10004, remodeled as the LA-4, served as the City of Portland in 1941. While UP did not remodel the train for 1941, it did add two new cars — an open-section sleeper and a 48-seat … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover before on a City of Los Angeles menu. While it wasn’t unusual for Union Pacific to put photos of, say, Sun Valley on Los Angeles trains or Zion on menus for Portland trains, usually photos of … Continue reading
We’ve seen this photo before on a 1959 lunch menu, but that one wrapped around to the back while this one fills the front cover but does not wrap around. Union Pacific apparently briefly used menus like this for dinners … Continue reading
This 8-1/2″x11″ four-page brochure — really 11″x17″ folded in half — came pre-scored to make it easy to fold into thirds so it could be mailed to prospective passengers in a number 10 envelope. Published in 1959, it has the … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1959 along-the-way brochure for the City of Portland that folded to about 4″ by 9″ and unfolded to 16″ by 13-1/2″. This one from 1957 has much the same content but is about 4-1/2″ by 7″ … Continue reading
