In 1960, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the first Hiawatha speedliner, the Milwaukee Road bravely offered meals for the same price they had charged for them in 1935. That means a table d’hôte meal of whitefish, lamb chop, or roast chicken with soup, potatoes, vegetable, bread dessert, and beverage was only 65¢. In 1960 a meal like that would normally cost around $2.
Click image to download a 771-KB PDF of this menu, which was provided by Brian Leiteritz.
The original Hiawatha made its inaugural run on May 29, 1935. It is like this menu was used only on May 29, 1960.
Milwaukee was considered a pro-passenger road, although not as gung ho as Burlington, whose corporate parents were GN and NP. For the 20th anniversary of the Coast Daylight, SP offered complimentary cake. Doubt very much that by the time the Daylight would celebrate its 25th anniversary (which would have been 3/21/1962 that SP even bothered to mark the occasion.