The menu sides of these two cards are the same as on yesterday’s, so today I am presenting the painting side of the breakfast card and the menu side of the lunch card. The painting illustrates what was a modern freight train for 1969, pulled by Alco’s version of a 5,500-horsepower locomotive, which in fact was a failure that was scrapped little more than a year after this menu was issued. We’ve seen this painting before on a menu folder.
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The menus on these cards are far more limited than those on UP’s menu folders at the time. Centennial breakfast folders and breakfast cards each offered seven full meals, but the folders also listed more than 40 a la carte items, compared with 14 on the cards. The lunch folders had five meals and more than 40 a la carte items, while the lunch cards had just three meals and fewer than 20 a la carte. Continue reading