This Western Pacific menu was used on a 1951 Prairie Farmer tour. I suspect that, like some Great Northern menus, this menu cover was specifically used for tour groups and wasn’t used for ordinary dining car passengers. Given the date, … Continue reading
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Here is yet another view of Sopris Peak and the Crystal River, this one on one of Rio Grande’s wraparound photo menus. I’ve been to Colorado many times, but had never heard of the Crystal River until a Streamliner Memories … Continue reading
Here’s a view of the Crystal River and Mount Sopris (which the menu calls Sopris Peak) in Rio Grande’s front-cover photo series. “The sparkling Crystal River is but one of a number of streams in the area known to trout … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1951 menu of this style featuring a train in the Royal Gorge, but that menu showed a heavyweight train pulled by Diesels in Rio Grande’s black with yellow stripes color scheme. Today’s menus from 1953 and … Continue reading
This menu cover features Mount Sopris behind the Crystal River, a 40-mile-long stream that feeds into the Roaring Fork River at Carbondale, which in turn feeds into the Colorado at Glenwood Springs. “In the romantic Rocky Mountains,” the back cover … Continue reading
As noted on the back of this menu, Colorado aspens, more properly known as quaking aspens, are known both for turning gold in the fall and for their leaves that tremble in the gentlest breeze. The menu doesn’t say so, … Continue reading
Glenwood Springs is featured on the cover of this 1947 menu. The back cover explains that spring waters emerge from the ground at 127 degrees and have to be cooled with “clear, cold mountain water” to 84 degrees for use … Continue reading
Here’s another menu I bought thinking I didn’t already have one when it turned out I did. Worse, like this one, the one I already had is a 1946 lunch menu. The good news is this one is a normal … Continue reading
The grandiose building on the cover of this menu is now (and was in 1944 when the menu was issued) the Redstone Inn. It was built in 1902 to be the home of John Cleveland Osgood, an entrepreneur who made … Continue reading
I love these Rio Grande menus with the pasted-on color photographs. Although nowhere as numerous as the Union Pacific color photo menus, every time I think I must have them all I find a couple more. I’ve previously found 19, … Continue reading