Today is Streamliner Memories’ seventh anniversary, and for the last several years I have used this date to start posting my most recent additions to my Union Pacific menu checklist. This month I have more than 50 menus to post, … Continue reading
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Here are three more Santa Fe lunch menus. Two of them, like yesterday’s, were painted by E.I. Couse. Both show a Taos native in a squatting position supposedly working on a piece of art. In fact, it seems unlikely that … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen the blanket weaver and arrow maker paintings on Texas Chief menus, but both were in sepia tones instead of full color. The color versions are much more impressive. (We’ve also seen a color Arrow Maker painting on … Continue reading
The MGM film Harvey Girls came out in 1946, and in its honor the Fred Harvey company asked artists Edgar Miller and Doris Lee to decorate its restaurant in Hollywood, California. Click image to download a 1.4-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
To round out yesterday’s lunch menu and the previous day’s … Continue reading
Here’s a lunch menu from the same era as yesterday’s breakfast menu, offering full lunches for just 30 cents (about $5.50 today). At that price, entrées were limited to Irish lamb stew with fresh vegetables or assorted cold meats with … Continue reading
In 1940, the Santa Fe advertised that passengers on the Scout could get “delicious Fred Harvey dining car meals for only 90¢ a day!” That breaks down to 25¢ for breakfast, 30¢ for lunch, and 35¢ for dinner. By 1941 … Continue reading
This calendar hasn’t aged well, but the colors in the photo are still vibrant. A close-up view of the photo reveals that the lead locomotive is numbered 5541, which would make it an F3 according to this Diesel roster. Rio … Continue reading
While yesterday’s Twin Lakes menu had a photo of the Royal Gorge on the back, this one has it on the front. The photo on the back is the classic shot of two California Zephyrs meeting at Grizzly siding in … Continue reading
In 1950, Rio Grande changed from the glued-on photo menus such as the one presented yesterday to nearly full-page photos printed on both the fronts and backs of the menus. Today’s photo shows one of the Twin Lakes, which is … Continue reading