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This menu is undated but must be in one of the last two or three years of UP passenger service as it is fairly crude. The front cover is generic, page 2 simply has the train name in Coronet type … Continue reading
Category Archives: City of Denver
This menu has the same cover photo as yesterday’s. After not noticing this menu cover photo for a decade, I found two of them for sale on eBay at the same time and bought both of them. Does that mean … Continue reading
Here’s the first new Union Pacific wraparound color photo menu I’ve identified since this one, which I posted in August 2020 but found in July. At that time, that was the first new one I had seen since in more … Continue reading
“Beginning June 18, the twin trains of the City of Denver will provide the only 16-hour, streamline train service between Chicago and Denver,” says this brochure. That dates it to 1936, the year the train began operation. Click image to … Continue reading
At first glance, this looks like the Frontier Shack booklet shown here before. But instead of opening up into 16 pages, today’s version unfolds into a six-panel brochure. Oddly, it is printed only on one side, so the six panels … Continue reading
A Los Angeles resident named Jack Hamilton loved trains and saved this item and a few other mementos (which I’ll present in the next three days) from a trip on the City of Denver. This is the beverage menu for … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a glossy, four-color brochure advertising the City of Denver dated October, 1955. Here’s a much more modest brochure for the same train dated June, 1955. Click any images to download a 580-KB PDF of this menu. It … Continue reading
As previously noted here, the Union Pacific made the City of Denver a domeliner in 1957 and 1958 by adding Milwaukee Road full-length domes. This 1958 brochure updates an earlier one by adding the word “Domeliner” to the cover. Click … Continue reading
Although Union Pacific swapped out some equipment on the original 1936 City of Denver, as of 1950 it was still using its original M-10005 and M-10006 locomotives and cars that were slightly smaller in profile than what had become the … 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