We’ve previously seen a June, 1938 timetable for the Shasta Route. Here’s one dated just a month later. The only change I see to Shasta Route trains is that train 18, from San Francisco-Oakland to Grants Pass, leaves and arrives … Continue reading
Category Archives: Southern Pacific
The steamboat on this menu no doubt represents New Orleans, the eastern terminus of the Southern Pacific’s Sunset Limited. In 1937, a similar steamboat was operating between San Francisco and Sacramento in competition with SP trains, but Southern Pacific advertising … Continue reading
This is the last menu I have from the silhouette series and appropriately it is a dinner menu dated September, 1937. The cover features a wind-swept pine overlooking Monterey Bay. Click image to download a 1.1-MB PDF of this menu. … Continue reading
Here’s a breakfast menu that features a Cascade Mountain scene on the cover. It’s probably supposed to represent Mount Shasta, though Shasta doesn’t really look like that. It could also be Odell Lake, though again the mountains behind it don’t … Continue reading
The cactus on this menu is meant to represent Phoenix and other Arizona resorts reached by Southern Pacific trains. Specifically, it looks a little like a scene from Saguaro National Park near Tucson. Click image to download a 1.0-MB PDF … Continue reading
In contrast with yesterday’s, the silhouette on today’s menu is easy to recognize: California redwoods. When its passenger trains still took the Siskiyou Route from Portland to Oakland via Medford, Southern Pacific offered bus tours to the redwoods via Pacific … Continue reading
This is the first in a series of menus that feature a silhouette of some scene along the SP. The menu cover is narrower than page three so a colored stripe on the righthand side of page three that designates … Continue reading
Southern Pacific advertising proclaimed that the railroad offered “four great routes”: Shasta, Overland, Golden State, and Sunset. But the Sunset and Golden State routes were really the same route for the first 800 miles from Los Angeles to El Paso. … Continue reading
In addition to system timetables (which, in 1936, were 56 pages long) and condensed timetables (16 pages in 1935), Southern Pacific in the 1930s produced 24-page timetables for each of its four main routes. Each appears to be a combination … Continue reading
The cover doesn’t say so, but this is really a condensed timetable. It is 16 pages long, while a true Southern Pacific system timetable in the 1930s was 56 pages. Click image to download a 12.0-MB PDF of this 16-page … Continue reading