An earlier post noted that “as used by Union Pacific,” non-wraparound photo menus after 1954 were all dinner menus with table d’hôte only. However, we’ve seen that Southern Pacific used the Bay Bridge, Fisherman’s Wharf, and Carmel Bay menus for … Continue reading
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We’ve seen this cover before on a City of Los Angeles menu. While it wasn’t unusual for Union Pacific to put photos of, say, Sun Valley on Los Angeles trains or Zion on menus for Portland trains, usually photos of … Continue reading
On Labor Day Weekend in 1960, the Railroad Club of Chicago sponsored an Iron Horse Tour from Chicago to Ogden that featured Burlington 5632 and Union Pacific 844. Presumably, the Burlington handled the train to Omaha while UP carried it … Continue reading
As used by Union Pacific, all of the extra-flap menus are dinner menus with table d’hôte selections only and no a la carte side. I once thought that was to simplify work for dining crews on the dome diners, but … Continue reading
Both of today’s menus were used on the domeliner City of St. Louis eight years apart. The first — which says “domeliner” on the outside but “streamliner” on the inside — is a lunch menu that featured jumbo shrimp Louis, … Continue reading
We’ve seen this photo before on a 1959 lunch menu, but that one wrapped around to the back while this one fills the front cover but does not wrap around. Union Pacific apparently briefly used menus like this for dinners … Continue reading
Many railroads offered menus in series that followed a similar format. Such as series would have been based on templates on which menu designers could drop illustrations and text in predetermined locations. Union Pacific’s postwar photo menus are certainly the … Continue reading
Here’s the menu that, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I first saw on the photo of the dome diner on Union Pacific calendar. The cover photo had previously been used on a menu as early as 1948, … Continue reading
Several years ago, I told the story of the 1942 Rose Bowl, which — due to the war — was played in North Carolina between Duke and Oregon State. It was, as I said before, the only Rose Bowl Oregon … Continue reading
Here is the first completely new Union Pacific photo menu I’ve seen in a long time. It shows Denver’s Washington Park, the same park featured on another menu, which identified it simply as “City Park.” Like most other UP photo … Continue reading