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I once downloaded scans of this booklet from the Smithsonian‘s web site, but the scans were missing two pages. I posted a PDF of those scans here anyway, but I’ve now acquired a copy of my own. Of course, the … Continue reading
Category Archives: City of Los Angeles
I’ve previously written about the technologies that made streamliners possible, including Diesels, metallurgy, and air conditioning. One other technology worth mentioning is the paint or, more specifically, the lacquers that gave most streamliners their bright colors and brand identities. Even … Continue reading
Although this July 1939 booklet says “new,” the train it describes was introduced in December 1937. This train included the Little Nugget car, a parabolic-tailed observation car, two coaches, seven sleepers, and a two-car coffee shop/diner (with the kitchen occupying … Continue reading
Here are my final two Union Pacific photo menus for awhile. The first is a 1970 menu for the City of Denver. We’ve seen this cover before on City of Los Angeles 1970 menus. Click image to download a 1.2-MB … Continue reading
We’ve seen these menu covers before and we’ve seen the insides before, or at least interiors very much like these. These are dinner menus used in the dome-diner era, which means they offer five table d’hôte meals and no a … Continue reading
Here are some more menus with non-wraparound San Francisco scenes that were used on the City of Los Angeles. These two feature the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Note that the Bay Bridge photo is the same … Continue reading
An earlier post noted that “as used by Union Pacific,” non-wraparound photo menus after 1954 were all dinner menus with table d’hôte only. However, we’ve seen that Southern Pacific used the Bay Bridge, Fisherman’s Wharf, and Carmel Bay menus for … 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
Here’s the menu that, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I first saw on the photo of the dome diner on Union Pacific calendar. The cover photo had previously been used on a menu as early as 1948, … Continue reading
In 1938, Union Pacific transferred the M-10004, which had been operating as the City of San Francisco, to City of Los Angeles service, thus increasing service on that route from five to ten times a month. Before putting the train … Continue reading