We’ve already seen a 1959 dinner menu with this same cover. Both menus were for the City of St. Louis and I suspect this cover was only used for that train. Click image to download a 2.3-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
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We’ve seen this menu cover before, but what’s unusual about this menu is on the inside. First, it is dated 11/46, making it the oldest UP postwar color photo menu that I’ve seen and the only one from 1946 in … Continue reading
We’ve seen a 1938 menu with this cover before, but that menu had a photo of downtown San Francisco on the back. This one, which was issued during the Golden Gate International Exposition, features that expo on the back. It … Continue reading
Last August, I posted a black-and-white menu of Old Faithful noting that it was the “seventh and, as far as I can tell, last of the Union Pacific black & white menus.” But here is an eighth showing Sun Valley, … Continue reading
Most Union Pacific menu photos seem to be taken from roadside pullouts, but I believe this is a rare case of a photo that required a hike. The photo is not taken from Angels Landing, which sees this canyon from … Continue reading
This image also appears on page 17 of UP’s 1928 tour book. The same scene also appears in a photo on a 1971 Union Pacific dining car menu, though by the time that photo was taken there was a parking … Continue reading
This photo was also used on page 33 of the 1928 Utah parks tour book. The two images are based on the same photo but must have used different colorists as the cloud formations are different and the rocks in … Continue reading
The menu on these dinner cards features broiled loin steak, baked ham, or cold beef tongue with soup, appetizer, potatoes, summer squash, salad, bread, dessert, and beverage. The desserts on this particular day were French peach cake, vanilla ice cream, … Continue reading
This UP lodge menu card shows “the painted buttresses of Cedar Breaks” National Monument. This particular image also appeared on page 21 of UP’s 1928 tour guide to the Southern Utah Parks. Click image to download a 426-KB PDF of … Continue reading
Here’s another view of the Grand Canyon on a UP lodge menu card. This card and all the cards I’ll present in the next few days are dinner cards for June 15, 1929, so they will all have the same … Continue reading