We’ve seen this menu before from the Chung collection. That one was a “mid-day” menu for the Imperial, Canadian Pacific’s premiere year-round train. This one has the same ambiguously labeled Trans-Canada Limited menu as yesterday’s Snow Plow menu. Click image … Continue reading
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Here’s another menu in the Confederation series that I didn’t find in the Chung collection. The cover compares an early locomotive-mounted wedge plow with a then-modern rotary snow plow. The back cover claims that “The development of the mechanical or … Continue reading
Canada became a nation in 1867. Fifty years later it was in the midst of a world war, so it waited until the 60th anniversary to have a major celebration. We’ve previously seen more than a dozen Canadian Pacific menus … Continue reading
The Pere Marquette Railroad operated car ferries across Lake Michigan, which allowed it to avoid congestion in Chicago. When the Chesapeake and Ohio merged with the Pere Marquette in 1947, it effectively entered into the car ferry business. In 1951, … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s menu, this one was used on the Capitol Limited. However, it is larger (about 8″x11″ vs. 7″x10″) and has a few more items on it, including two plate meals. B&O never seemed to date its menus, so I … Continue reading
This dinner menu has the same cover (in a slightly different color) as yesterday’s lunch menu. Instead of advertising something as utilitarian as piggyback service, however, the back cover promotes the Strata-Domes in service “on three B&O Dieseliners”: the Capitol … Continue reading
The front cover of this lunch menu has a photo of the capitol building after which the Capitol Limited is named. The back cover, however, advertises the “new” trailer-on-flatcar service, which it notes was inaugurated on the Baltimore & Ohio … Continue reading
As an outspoken member of the Communist Party, Diego Rivera and his art became controversial in the United States. But in September 1946, when Fred Harvey issued this menu for its restaurant at St. Louis Union Station, the Cold War … Continue reading
We’ve seen this photo before on the cover of a 1951 menu. The back cover of that menu, however, showed the Royal Gorge train in the Royal Gorge. This one, however, shows the Maroon Bells, using the same photo used … Continue reading
“Vista Dome cars will be featured in the shining new stainless steel California Zephyr,” says the back of this menu. In fact, this menu is dated April 21, 1950, so the California Zephyr had already been operating for more than … Continue reading