This menu shows the Chapel of Transfiguration in Grand Teton National Park. Unusually for a church, this chapel has a window behind the alter so parishioners can enjoy a view of the Tetons in case the sermon is boring. As … Continue reading
This menu cover features the rose garden at Los Angeles’ Exposition Park. Other parts of the 160-acre park include the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, a natural history museum, and (since this menu was printed), an African-American museum, and a science … Continue reading
Nine years after the 48-page 1950 Along the Union Pacific booklet, UP published this brief (effectively six 4″x9″ panels printed back to back) brochure as the along-the-way guide for the City of Los Angeles. This brochure apparently also served as … Continue reading
The first postcard today wasn’t issued by the Union Pacific, but it gives a clue about who rode that railroad’s first streamliners back when they operated just ten times a month. The back of the postcard, which is postmarked May … Continue reading
Union Pacific handed out this eight-page “souvenir album” to passengers on the last runs of its daily trains before Amtrak took over, April 30, 1971. A letter from UP CEO J.C. Kenefick offers a “reluctant goodbye to that small but … Continue reading
Here is yet another April, 1971 menu whose interior is identical to the menus of the last few days. This one features on its cover Bear Lake and Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, which was created in 1915, … Continue reading
Today’s menu is dated April, 1971, the last month Union Pacific operated the City of Los Angeles, which was discontinued when Amtrak took over on May 1. Other than the date, the menu is identical to those posted the last … Continue reading
Today’s menu features Laguna Beach, a resort area in Orange County, California. The March, 1971 dinner menu inside is identical to the Mt. Hood and Zion Park menus. Click image to download a 2.3-MB PDF of this menu. Many people … Continue reading
While Union Pacific rails reached Yellowstone National Park, it had to share access to that park with the Northern Pacific and several other railroads. But UP was the only railroad to reach Zion and Bryce Canyon, and it built lodges … Continue reading
Although this March, 1971 menu has the same cover photo as the 1970 lunch menu, the text accompanying it is slightly different (and is in a different font). The earlier one mentions the “Domeliner City of Portland and Streamliner Portland … Continue reading
