The bottom of this menu has an illustration of a train that doesn’t have any dome cars, so the menu was likely used on the Mainstreeter or another secondary train, not the North Coast Limited. As an 8-1/2″x11″ card, not … Continue reading
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This menu is dated June, 1948, so it was used on the semi-streamlined North Coast Limited, though the menu makes no mention of streamlining or includes advertising of any kind. The back of the elegant orange folder is completely blank. … Continue reading
We’ve already seen a colorful 1963 menu celebrating the 80th anniversary of the completion of Northern Pacific’s line from Lake Superior to Puget Sound. The very next year, NP issued this menu celebrating the centennial of the legislation that provided … Continue reading
This is another poor photo of Yellowstone that a colorist has hardly improved. The subject is so contrasty that it might as well be a silhouette. The use of a green tint in the middle ground is probably meant to … Continue reading
This slightly colorized photo is looking downstream rather than up to the falls. Like the photo on the Yellowstone Falls card, this photo was taken in late afternoon when half the canyon was in shadow. Yet the photo is credited … Continue reading
Lower Yellowstone Falls is a spectacular sight, but the photograph on this menu doesn’t do it justice partly because it is black-and-white but also because it was taken in the late afternoon when half the canyon was in the shade. … Continue reading
In the 1920s, Northern Pacific menus consisted of a card with a black-and-white (sometimes colorized) photo, usually taken by Asahel Curtis, on one side and the menu on the other side. We’ve already seen one with with a colorized version … Continue reading
Northern Pacific issued this cute little (5″x5″) menu in 1915. This is actually a 12-page booklet (including covers), two pages of which are a breakfast menu and two a wine and beverage listing. The remaining pages are photographs of typical … Continue reading
These menus make a big deal of the fact that C&O/B&O employees wear a sprig of holly during the Christmas season, a tradition “started in 1948.” No doubt it was started on the B&O, as some of the holly came … Continue reading
October is National Apple Month, and in the Octobers of the 1920s and 1930s the Great Northern and Northern Pacific often celebrated apples in their menus. This made sense as Washington state grows more apples then the rest of the … Continue reading