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A few days ago we had some menus from the 1950 Sam Campbell Western Wonderlands tour. This menu is from the 1949 tour, which was the second such tour offered. Click image to download a 1.0-MB PDF of this menu. … Continue reading
Category Archives: Chicago & North Western
This booklet says that California can be “reached quickly and with all the comforts of travel by the Chicago, Union Pacific & North Western Line,” which was the name of the tour company owned by the two railroads. The booklet … Continue reading
Although this appears to be a children’s book, it contains enough tourist information to make it clear that it also served as advertising. Moreover, each coloring page is accompanied by a full-color photo of the same scene, which isn’t usual … Continue reading
C&NW’s 1962 timetable showed the 400 leaving Chicago and Minneapolis at about 11 am and arriving at their opposite termini at about 7 pm, so there was time to serve both lunch and dinner in the diner. This 1964 dinner … Continue reading
Dated 1960, half of this menu offers a variety of alcoholic beverages and the other half has a much shorter selection of dinners. The menu doesn’t say so, but it obviously was used in the train’s cafe car rather than … Continue reading
The cover of this menu is probably meant to show off the C&NW as an exemplar of modern transportation in comparison to whatever kind of transport is being serviced by the blacksmith in the foreground. Inside, this is a lunch … Continue reading
Until it introduced the 400 in 1935, the North Western Limited was Chicago & North Western’s premiere train. Advertised in the 1920s with the uninspiring (by today’s standards) slogan of “As fine as any train can be,” the overnight train … Continue reading
The cover (which is the back cover) of this timetable shows the E2 Diesel locomotive jointly owned by C&NW, Union Pacific, and Southern Pacific, next to one of C&NW’s “steamlined” Hudson locomotives used for non-streamlined Chicago-Omaha trains, behind which can … Continue reading
This 1937 booklet at first looks like a summary of the Summer Tours booklet for that year (which I’ll be posting in a couple of months). But this booklet doesn’t cover escorted tours; it merely shows alternative routings between Chicago … Continue reading
These blotters from the Dale Hastin collection all advertise C&NW named trains that were less famous than the Overland, City, and 400 trains shown on previous blotters. The PDF files are about 300 to 600 KB in size. This undated … Continue reading