Breakfast and lunch menus on Canadian Pacific’s trans-Atlantic steamships in 1957 were not as fancy as the dinner menus, and the lunch menu is one we have previously seen aboard Canadian Pacific dining cars. The breakfast menu is printed on … Continue reading
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Today’s menu features an English landscape painter named John Constable (1776-1837). The cover also shows Willy Lott’s Cottage, a house that was featured in several of Constable’s paintings and that survives today, partly because it was popularized by Constable. One … Continue reading
In 1957, or possibly earlier, Canadian Pacific began featuring British artists on the covers of its Atlantic steamship menus. We previously seen a menu portraying Robert Burns. Today’s menu features William Shakespeare and Stratford-on-Avon, the birthplace of the famous actor … Continue reading
The photo on this menu cover is taken from the same spot as the photo on a Canadian Pacific booklet that I estimated was published in 1948. However, the locomotives in the photos are quite different. Where the locomotive on … Continue reading
We’ve already seen an Expression-series menu featuring the Chateau Frontenac from the Chung Collection. I managed to find this one for my collection with yesterday’s Royal Alexandra menu and is in both English and French. Like yesterday’s, this one has … Continue reading
The Royal Alexandra was Canadian Pacific’s hotel in Winnipeg. We’ve previously seen a 1931 dining car menu with the hotel pictured on an otherwise nondescript cover. Today’s menu cover is anything but nondescript. Click image to download a 2.4-MB PDF … Continue reading
These little flyers were inserted in the Frisco Lines and Ozark menus presented here a couple of days ago, but that must have been done by some other rail collector as the 1967 dates on these flyers doesn’t match the … Continue reading
We’ve seen the cover illustration of the two locomotives before on a postcard advertising the Texas Special (represented by the locomotive with the star on the nose) and the Meteor (represented by the locomotive with the Frisco logo on the … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s, this menu doesn’t have an actual menu printed on the inside, though there are some filagree lines printed in red for trim. Also like yesterday’s, this menu has the “Frisco Faster Freight” logo on the back, dating it … Continue reading
This rather plain menu doesn’t actually have a menu on the inside, but the inside is printed with an elaborate logo and some blue trim. The logo includes the face of a steam locomotive, while the back cover has the … Continue reading