Though used on Southern Pacific trains, these menus were based on Union Pacific designs. These particular menus were printed for tours offered by a company called Random Travel. Click image to download a 1.1-MB PDF of this menu. These menus, … Continue reading
This booklet advertises the New Orleans connection between the Sunset Limited and Crescent, allowing passengers to go from coast to coast. As mentioned here previously, this “Washington-Sunset Route” was advertised from 1946 to 1949 and again from 1954 to 1956. … Continue reading
Here we have the Alex Dulfer Kodachrome version of the packet of Coast and Valley photos. Many of these seem to be deliberate re-creations of the photos included in the National Color Press folio: photos of the Golden Gate Bridge, … Continue reading
Here is Alex Dulfer’s version of sixteen color photos for the Overland Route. Like the Shasta Route photos, they are better quality than the National Color Press photos, or at least they have aged better. Click image to download a … Continue reading
Some time after 1948 — I’m guessing around 1950 — a company called Alex Dulfer Lithographing issued a new set of 16 color photos of the Shasta Route. Like the National Color Press set, these would have been sold in … Continue reading
After discarding all of the photographs that are duplicates of ones in other sets in this series, this packet has even fewer unique photos than the Overland Route folio. Just two photos, one of Hollywood Boulevard and one of “the … Continue reading
If you already had the other folios of scenes along the Southern Pacific — the Shasta Route, California, San Francisco, and Grandeur of the West — you might be disappointed to learn that thirteen of the sixteen photos in the … Continue reading
This packet of sixteen color photos is similar to photo sets we’ve seen before of San Francisco, California, and the West. There was also one for the Overland Route which I’ll post tomorrow and one for the California Coast and … Continue reading
Southern Pacific was reputed to have excellent dining car service before passenger ridership nosedived after World War II, but you wouldn’t know it from menus such as this one. Printed on flimsy paper, it’s really just an 8-1/2″x11″ sheet folded … Continue reading
SP’s 1938 brochure for the budget-priced Californian was printed in black-and-white with red trim. For 1940, SP issued an all-new brochure printed in “natural color,” meaning Kodachrome photographs printed with the CYMK four-color process. Although this is a great improvement, … Continue reading
