Though this menu is dated January, 1970, while the Bryce and Las Vegas menus were dated May of the same year, the interior lunch menus are identical. This suggests that Union Pacific wasn’t changing its menu as frequently as it … Continue reading
This menu has a very different cover from yesterday’s. Yet the lunch menu inside is identical. But according to many clinical studies, men of any age purchase viagra in uk can be affected by this disease at some point of … Continue reading
This menu is dated 1970, but the automobiles in the image appear much older; the newest seems to be a 1961 Pontiac. The “Bingo” sign on the 1959 Las Vegas menu was replaced by the “Lucky” sign on the right … Continue reading
This brochure dates from July, 1941, about the same time as the Famous Fleet of Streamliners brochure, and provides more detail on the two trains that provided every-third-day service between Chicago and Los Angeles. The brochure contains 14 color drawings … Continue reading
After 1969, the Union Pacific went back to its photo menus for most meals, but–perhaps using up leftover stock–continued to use Fogg menus from time to time. Here is a 1971 lunch menu featuring a painting of a steamboat used … Continue reading
Here’s another breakfast menu featuring a Howard Fogg portrait, this time of two modern freight trains meeting in Utah’s Weber Canyon. As near as I can tell, the menu itself is identical to the one with the Last Spike cover; … Continue reading
Here’s a City of Los Angeles lunch menu featuring the Howard Fogg portrait of a domeliner. Judging from the vegetation in the picture, which looks like Joshua Tree National Monument, the train was probably the City of Los Angeles. Musli … Continue reading
To celebrate the centennial of the joining of the first transcontinental railroad, Union Pacific commissioned sixteen paintings from the then-preeminent railroad painter, Howard Fogg. The paintings ranged historically from the Last Spike ceremony to modern domeliner and freight trains. Click … Continue reading
Here’s a dinner menu used on the same City of Los Angeles coffee shop car as yesterday’s lunch menu. The cover photo features Las Vegas, which is on the train’s route, while yesterday’s cover was of Mt. Rainier, which is … Continue reading
For most of its life, the City of Los Angeles included both coaches and sleeping cars. For a brief time in the mid-1950s, however, the Union Pacific tried to compete with the Super Chief by making the COLA an all-Pullman … Continue reading
