I’m interrupting this week’s series of posts on Florida trains to remind you that today is the 264th birthday of Robert Burns, Scotland’s national poet. On this day, Scots traditionally have a Burns supper, a meal that is centered on … Continue reading
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I’m interrupting the tale of Chicago-Pacific Northwest railroads to wish you a Happy New Year and present this menu from a 1931-1932 Canadian Pacific world cruise. The menu was used on the practically brand-new Empress of Britain, which between 1931 … Continue reading
The Rio Grande installed this “monument to an idea” in Glenwood Canyon in 1950, a year after the inaugural run of the California Zephyr. As much as it was a monument to the dome car, it was also a monument … Continue reading
The speed wars that reduced New York-Chicago and Chicago-Denver train times to 16 hours and Chicago-West Coast train times to under 40 hours were driven by the desire of business travelers to minimize the number of business hours lost in … Continue reading
Happy holidays to Streamliner Memory readers. Here are some Canadian Pacific Christmas menus from the University of British Columbia’s Chung collection. Although these menus are over an eight-year period and one is aboard a steamship and the other two are … Continue reading
“Colorado is the “highest of all the forty-eight states,” notes the back of this menu. “Forty-nine of Colorado’s peaks push skyward more than 14,000 feet above the level of the sea [today it is supposed to be 53, though some … Continue reading
The Los Pinos River, sometimes called the Pine River, flows out of what is now the Wenimuche Wilderness Area near Durango, Colorado. This wilderness is nearly half a million acres in size, and one of its trail heads is only … Continue reading
Yesterday’s Colorado Room beverage menu had wild rose and lupin on the cover. Today’s has buttercup, anemone, and fringed gentian, the same as this dinner menu. Click image to download a 230-KB PDF of this menu. This particular menu, however, … Continue reading
Nine years ago, when I presented a beverage menu for the vista-dome Denver Zephyr with a columbine and deer vine painting on the cover, I noted that I had also seen one with wild rose and lupin. I then forgot … Continue reading
This is an elegant little menu for an elegant little motor train. An image of Mark Twain apparently groping a rather alarmed-looking Huck Finn (or perhaps Tom Sawyer) is deeply embossed on the cover. The menu is all printed on … Continue reading