Here are my final two Union Pacific photo menus for awhile. The first is a 1970 menu for the City of Denver. We’ve seen this cover before on City of Los Angeles 1970 menus. Click image to download a 1.2-MB … Continue reading
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Today’s menus were used on a “Holiday in the Rockies” special train tour sponsored by the Pacific Railroad Society of Los Angeles. The tour took place on August 30 through September 2, 1968, which would have been Labor Day Weekend. … Continue reading
These menus came with yesterday’s, so although they are undated they are almost certainly from 1965. All three menus have the same picture but are for different meals, so we can see something of the range of meals served at … Continue reading
Generically known as a hoodoo, this particular erosional remnant looks a little like Queen Victoria, so was named after her. The photo is a detachable postcard accompanying a dinner menu at Zion, Bryce, and Grand Canyon lodges. Apparently, by 1965 … Continue reading
Today’s first menu was used on café-lounge cars of Portland Rose. In 1964, when the first menu was issued, the Rose went from Portland to Chicago under three different train numbers. This menu says it for trains 17 and 18, … Continue reading
Here is a previously unknown menu photo that I found just a few weeks ago. The photograph looks very much like the one of Fisherman’s Wharf shown yesterday, but this photo is taken from a slightly different angle at a … Continue reading
We’ve seen these menu covers before and we’ve seen the insides before, or at least interiors very much like these. These are dinner menus used in the dome-diner era, which means they offer five table d’hôte meals and no a … Continue reading
We’ve seen this cover photo before on a 1970 menu. The difference between that cover and this one from 1965 is that this one mentions that Union Pacific ran a train between Los Angeles and Las Vegas called the Las … Continue reading
Union Pacific issued at least three menus featuring San Francisco’s Nob Hill on the cover. This is one of the two that were among my missing menus. This particular menu was used on a 1963 “Caribou Country Special,” a special … Continue reading
Here are some more menus with non-wraparound San Francisco scenes that were used on the City of Los Angeles. These two feature the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Note that the Bay Bridge photo is the same … Continue reading