Though the format is less elaborate, this mid-day menu for the Trans-Canada Limited has the same date (if “1-9-25” is a date) and similar offerings as the spiral tunnel menu. There are many differences: this one has cream of celery … Continue reading
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This mid-day menu from the Trans-Canada Limited has a beautifully colored illustration of Canadian Pacific’s spiral tunnel route ascending the west side of the Rocky Mountains between Field and Lake Louise. Side flaps on the menu describe the two spiral … Continue reading
Here, complete with tassel, is the menu for the champagne dinner on Santa Fe’s Super Chief. A postcard showing a couple enjoying this dinner was posted here a few days ago. Click image to download a 1.2-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
Here’s a 1962 menu for the Sunset Limited. While the front cover shows a cowboy lassoing Texas longhorn cattle, the back has a six-paragraph biography of John James Audubon. The incongruity is lessened by the fact that the streamlined Sunset … Continue reading
This menu says it was for the 20th Century Limited and the Commodore Vanderbilt. The latter was inaugurated as an all-Pullman train in 1938 and left New York/Chicago about 1-3/4 hours before the Century. Since it made a few more … Continue reading
We’ve already seen a Hoover Dam menu from 1946 (when UP still called it Boulder Dam), but the photo used on that menu showed numerous automobiles that clearly dated from the 1940s. For this 1968 menu, UP used a new … Continue reading
Kansas City has an annual horse show called the American Royal, which is the source of the name of the Burlington train, the American Royal Zephyr. In 1967, the Kansas City Saddle and Sirloin Club sent American Royal Ambassadors to … Continue reading
This menu shows the Chapel of Transfiguration in Grand Teton National Park. Unusually for a church, this chapel has a window behind the alter so parishioners can enjoy a view of the Tetons in case the sermon is boring. As … Continue reading
Here’s what appears at first glance to be a Union Pacific menu that may never have been used aboard a train, or even by the railroad. Inside, it says it is for the twenty-fifth anniversary lunch for Associated Food Stores, … Continue reading
This 1964 breakfast menu for the City of Los Angeles features Disneyland’s Main Street, which is the second thing visitors would see after entering the park. UP wouldn’t want to include the first thing they would see: the Disneyland and … Continue reading