After designing the Frontier Shack for the City of Denver, Walt Kuhn designed the lounge car for the second City of Los Angeles. Although the car and train were put into service in December, 1937, this booklet is dated November, … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen this photo of Sleeping Beauty’s Castle on a City of Portland dinner menu. This dinner menu was for the City of Los Angeles. Both are from 1971, and the meal selections are only a little different: steak, … Continue reading
We’ve seen both of these menu covers before, but the menus on the inside are different from what we’ve seen before (though identical to one another). In the last couple of years before Amtrak, Union Pacific dining car menus for … Continue reading
Here’s a scene, titled “Moment of Excitement,” that almost certainly never happened. “Plains Indians, desperate for winter food and hides, have stampeded buffalo onto the tracks and stalled an Emigrant Train,” says the painting description. “The train crew and passengers … Continue reading
Unlike other railroads that were formed from mergers of pioneer railroads, the Union Pacific started out as the Union Pacific in 1864, so as of 1969 it had few predecessor railroads. One exception was the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, which … Continue reading
We’ve seen Howard Fogg’s portrayal of the Golden Spike ceremony on a breakfast menu folder. This is the same painting on a breakfast menu card. Like most of the breakfast and lunch menus I’ve shown in the last couple of … Continue reading
The menu sides of these two cards are the same as on yesterday’s, so today I am presenting the painting side of the breakfast card and the menu side of the lunch card. The painting illustrates what was a modern … Continue reading
The sun rose on the westbound City of Los Angeles around the time it crossed the Nevada-California border, and Howard Fogg’s painting appears to be near Yermo, California. Union Pacific used this painting on some of its menu folders but … Continue reading
This menu uses the same photo as yesterday’s, but it lacks the extra flap that serves only to give the name of the train. Instead, “Domeliner City of Los Angeles appears at the top of page 2. This is one … Continue reading
This 1960 menu features a view of Bryce Canyon that we haven’t seen before on a menu, though it appeared on the May, 1955 Union Pacific calendar. The back-cover text is nearly identical to the text used on other post-war … Continue reading
