This unusual dining car menu is undated, but from the inside decorations it is from sometime before 1938. I have a 1931 menu that offers a “Red brand” sirloin steak for $1.50 and a 1937 menu that lists it for … Continue reading
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Yesterday we viewed several menus from the Chung collection that featured charcoal (or possibly pencil) drawings on the cover. A couple of them had several vertical bars in the lower righthand corner, but the one showing the Chateau Frontenac did … Continue reading
Perhaps as an economy measure, starting in around 1930 Canadian Pacific issued a series of menus that featured what appears to be pencil or charcoal drawings on the cover. We’ve already seen a dining car menu that featured the Empress … Continue reading
In 1930, Canadian Pacific put out a series of menus celebrating major industries in Canada, especially ones closely involved with the railway. Although each of the menus had cover paintings by Charles James Greenwood that wrapped around to the back … Continue reading
As noted here a couple of days ago, in 1929 Canadian Pacific acquired twenty 2-10-4 locomotives, which it called Selkirks, from Montreal Locomotive Works, the Canadian subsidiary of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO). At 78,000 pounds of tractive effort, these … Continue reading
The ship pictured on this dining car menu cover would not go into service until almost a year after this menu was used for a “Through the Wonderland of the West” tour. This would be the second Canadian Pacific ship … Continue reading
This menu features the first of 36 2-10-4 locomotives built for the Canadian Pacific. The Santa Fe Railway, which pioneered this wheel arrangement, called them Texas locomotives, but Canadian Pacific called them Selkirks. Click image to download a 796-KB PDF … Continue reading
We’ve already seen a menu with the same cover theme as yesterday’s booklets. Here are several more from the Chung collection. Each of the menus (and booklets) feature a Canadian Pacific hotel on the front cover and smaller pictures of … Continue reading
Although my focus is on dining car menus, these Chung collection menus used on the Canadian Pacific steamships are so pretty that I wanted to include them as well. Since these steamship cruises were advertised on yesterday’s dining car menus, … Continue reading
Canadian Pacific steamships had regular summer schedules between Canada and Europe or Australia, but they also went on various cruises in the winter, when ocean travel in northern hemisphere was less pleasant. These 1928 through 1932 menus from the Chung … Continue reading