Here’s another menu printed for the City of Los Angeles dome dining car in 1958. Whereas yesterday’s menu offered steak, salmon, lamb chops, and ham, this one offered steak, trout, chicken, and prime rib. While yesterday’s was dated May and … Continue reading
I’ve previously noted a couple of variations in Union Pacific’s post-war color photo menus. First, some had photos only on the front cover, and not wrapping around to the back. Second, some had an extra fold, and the mini-page on … Continue reading
In 1937, the City of Portland route was served by the M-10001, a diminutive train that lacked a full-service kitchen. To make a virtue out of necessity, UP claimed that the truncated dinner menu offered on this train consisted of … Continue reading
These are all 1971 dinner menus marked for the City of Los Angeles. The first, which is dated January, has one of my favorite Union Pacific photos of Bryce as it is in the canyon rather than taken from the … Continue reading
Here are three more menus, all of which were used on the City of Los Angeles. First is a 1967 dinner menu similar to two of yesterday’s menus in that there is no a la carte section. However, four of … Continue reading
Here are three menus whose covers we’ve seen before but which offer different menus on the inside. First is a 1963 City of Los Angeles dinner menu with Sun Valley’s golf course on the cover, which we previously saw on … Continue reading
I was surprised to find this menu as I had never seen one like it before. No doubt there are still others not on my checklist, which now has 124 confirmed menu covers in the color wrap-around photo series, 115 … Continue reading
We’ve already seen a 1950 edition of this booklet. Two years later the booklet was barely changed, though photographs on pages 6 and 7 were replaced, perhaps to reflect changes in the train’s observation cars. Both editions note that the … 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
After the railroad’s 1969 centennial, Union Pacific issued a menu cover featuring the view from Point Imperial on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. This pre-centennial menu has a similar view, but with people in the foreground. The graphic … Continue reading
