Here’s a menu that was probably used on a Southern Pacific heavyweight train in December, 1940. The menu’s small size (5-1/2″x8-1/2″) was typical of SP’s menus other than those used on the City of San Francisco, which were sized the … Continue reading
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Santa Fe inaugurated the Grand Canyon Limited in 1929. Though the train received some streamlined cars in 1947, it continued to operate with a mixture of streamlined and heavyweight cars through most of its life. As of 1950, when this … Continue reading
This lunch menu doesn’t have a date, but as previously noted it would have to be from the late 1930s when the Northern Pacific had roller bearings on its passenger locomotives. The rather spectacular pattern on the menu cover wraps … Continue reading
The Winold Reiss Indian menus in my collection, as well as any others I’ve seen, all seem to be for breakfast or lunch. At least from 1940 through 1947, when the streamlined Empire Builder was introduced, Great Northern dinner menus … Continue reading
This undated lunch menu features Riding Black Horse. A photo below shows someone named Bob Riding Black Horses in a 1905 parade in Alberta. Would that have been the man in the Reiss portrait or his son? Other photos show … Continue reading
In the 1930s, the Great Northern used paintings by its favorite artist, Winold Reiss, on the covers of some of its menus. Reiss had produced more than 50 Indian portraits that were purchased for the railway by Louis Hill, the … Continue reading
Temple Square, which the Union Pacific notes is “usually of chief interest to the visitor in Salt Lake City,” features the Mormon Temple and Mormon Tabernacle. Considering that it was built in the 1860s, the Tabernacle is remarkable for its … Continue reading
This menu has a sublime photo of the Grand Canyon taken from the North Rim, where Union Pacific built Grand Canyon Lodge. The inside menu is identical to yesterday’s Disneyland menu. Click image to download a 2.3-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
This City of Portland menu from April, 1971, the last month the train would operate, features Cinderella’s Castle on the cover. Instead of the small drawing that is usually above the photo description, this menu features a photo of a … Continue reading
Here is yet another April, 1971 menu whose interior is identical to the menus of the last few days. This one features on its cover Bear Lake and Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, which was created in 1915, … Continue reading