As we have seen, during the 1950s the Great Northern endeavored to make the Western Star the match of the Empire Builder in every way except for not providing dome cars (and even then added one dome coach to the … Continue reading
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This menu features a photo of Portland’s Memorial Coliseum on the front and a drawing of it on the back. Portland completed this coliseum in 1961 at a cost of $8 million ($62 million today). For about a decade, it … Continue reading
Today’s menu features a winter scene of the Colorado Rockies–possibly Pike’s Peak–on the cover. Where the 1941 menu had a lengthy description of the cover scene, and the 1956 menu had a brief description, this one has none at all. … Continue reading
The beautiful Maroon Bells appear on the cover of this menu, which was used for New York Kiwanis Clubs heading to a San Francisco convention. They were probably on the Prospector or Royal Gorge, as if they had been on … Continue reading
Courtesy of the New York Public Library, here is a dinner menu featuring Mesa Verde National Park on the cover. Compared with many postwar menus, this menu offers an incredible number of items. Click image to download a 0.9-MB PDF … Continue reading
This menu is dated January 10, less than four months before Amtrak took over, yet it shows the attention to detail and quality that would be expected for what was by then unquestionably the nation’s premiere train. The color cover … Continue reading
Fast forward from 1950 to 1970 for a breakfast menu dated October 1. Unlike yesterday’s lunch menu, this one doesn’t skimp on anything: a folder with a color cover (unlike the Texas Chief whose menus seemingly deserved only sepia tones) … Continue reading
Here’s another Super Chief menu from the New York Public Library, this one dated January 21, 1950. Though war rationing is long gone, this menu certainly doesn’t seem like it came from one of the nation’s premiere trains. But, cialis … Continue reading
Here, courtesy of the New York Public Library, are two dinner menus from the Super Chief. Both are dated June 11 (and the library helpfully added that they were from 1946), but they have different offerings. Click image to download … Continue reading
Today’s menu features Autumn Aspens, a painting by Fremont Ellis (misspelled Freemont on the menu cover). Born and raised in Montana, Ellis became a self-taught painter and photographer who was eventually settled in Santa Fe. He would photograph scenes and … Continue reading