This unusually sized brochure unfolds to about 11″ by 17″ and has all the usual photos of the dome diner (including the private dining room, with roses wallpaper, beneath the dome), dome lounge, and dome coach. It isn’t dated, but … Continue reading
We’ve seen these little postcard-sized booklets before for the City of Denver, 49er, Pony Express, Portland Rose, City of Los Angeles, and many other trains. While the Book of Trains was published at least five years before this one, this … Continue reading
Here are several items that could have come from a single, somewhat circuitous, trip in around 1960. (But they didn’t; I received them from multiple sources.) Click any image to download a PDF of that item. First, you get an … Continue reading
Except for the Winged Streamliner logo in place of a rose, this score pad is nearly identical to one we’ve seen for the Portland Rose. Both of them are nearly identical to one we’ve seen for the Great Northern, which … Continue reading
Today’s postcards all depict the streamliner City of Portland in the Columbia River Gorge east of Portland. Although the City of Los Angeles was technically Union Pacific’s premiere train, and no doubt carried more passengers, the railroad featured the Portland … Continue reading
This booklet is parallel to yesterday’s for the City of Denver. Is the green cover supposed to be reminiscent of Oregon’s evergreen forests while the City of Denver red cover denotes Colorado’s red rocks? Or was UP just trying to … Continue reading
Although Union Pacific “rebooted” its color wrap-around menu series with new photographs in 1970, it continued to use the Howard Fogg centennial menus. This menu is dated April, 1971, the last month before Amtrak took over. Although Fogg did sixteen … Continue reading
We’ve seen these three menu covers before, but not with exactly the same inner menus. I’m including all three in one post so we can get to other “new” things sooner. Click image to download a 2.3-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
This menu features two San Francisco landmarks, Fisherman’s Wharf and Coit Tower, in one photo. The menu is marked for the City of Portland, which is unusual because nearly all menus with pictures of San Francisco were used on the … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s breakfast menus, these two have identical lunch menus dated March, 1959, while the cover photos are ones we’ve seen before. First is the rose garden in Portland’s Washington Park, which we’ve previously seen on a 1959 breakfast menu … Continue reading
