This menu is undated, but the Golden Gate International Exposition took place in 1939 and 1940, so it is from one of those two years. The Federal Building shown on the cover of this menu covered seven acres and had … Continue reading
Category Archives: Southern Pacific
Southern Pacific’s advertising for its “four scenic routes” leaves out the two routes between San Fransisco Bay and Los Angeles: the Coast Route and the interior San Joaquin Route. But these are featured in this timetable. Like the Shasta and … Continue reading
Railroad employee magazines such as this one aren’t usually passenger memorabilia, but this particular issue contains a seven-page article on Southern Pacific’s San Francisco Bay ferries. The article includes nearly two dozen photos, at least one of which dates back … Continue reading
Most of these Prairie Farmer menus have wrap-around photos, but this one and the one with scenes from Southern California use different photos on the front and back. This one features two scenes from the route of the Sunset Limited. … Continue reading
The road around Crater Lake is close enough to the lake that the only way to get a photo of the entire lake is to use some kind of panoramic camera, a fisheye lens, or leave the road and either … Continue reading
The photo shows a spectacular aerial view of the westbound Overland Limited traversing the Great Salt Lake. Airplanes were still rare enough in 1938 that few people would have ever seen such a view. The Overland left Ogden at 8:20 … Continue reading
Prairie Farmer‘s audience was, obviously, rural. Though WLS was in Chicago, it was a clear channel (meaning no other radio stations operated on its frequency at night), so could be heard for hundreds of miles around. I presume that “supper” … Continue reading
Here’s another breakfast menu from the WLS/Prairie Farmer tour to California. WLS stood for “world’s largest store,” as the radio station was started by Sears Roebuck in 1924. In 1928, it sold the station to Prairie Farmer magazine, which is … Continue reading
This is the first of a series of six menus from a California tour offered by Chicago radio station WLS. Though the menus are undated, other information suggests the tour left Chicago via the Alton on January 30 and returned, … Continue reading
“All boys want to be real locomotive engineers someday,” said Southern Pacific. So it put together this 16-page introduction to SP locomotives and operations and offered boys an opportunity to be a “junior engineer.” Click image to download a 3.8-MB … Continue reading