Whoever collected the maps, timetables, and other items from the trip from Detroit to the San Francisco convention also picked up these two doilies, either from the train from Ogden to Oakland or San Francisco/Oakland to Los Angeles. Click image … Continue reading
Lunch on August 24 featured gaffelbiters (pickled herring), lobster on the half shell, and honeycomb tripe. We’ve seen this cover photo before on a Banff Springs Hotel menu. Click image to download a 924-KB PDF of this menu. Lunch for … Continue reading
No doubt because staterooms were small, many passengers on the Empress of Scotland checked larger pieces of luggage into a baggage room. For a few hours a day, the room was open so that passengers could get a change of … Continue reading
To return to Canada, Ms. Hruska left Liverpool on August 20, 1954. She kept this programme, one of which was printed for every day of the voyage, for August 20. It reveals that the trip from Liverpool to Montreal wasn’t … Continue reading
On June 29, 1954, Helen Hruska boarded the Empress of Scotland on Montreal for a seven-day voyage to Liverpool. She returned on the same ship, leaving Liverpool on August 20. I don’t know whether she had done this before, but … Continue reading
Here’s a beautiful photo of Mount Athabaska, near the Columbia Icefield, on a Canadian National menu. The car in the foreground looks like it was made in around 1940, but the menu is from 1953. It says it was for … Continue reading
California Zephyr passengers were greeted with this card on their tables when they sat down to eat in the dining car. Note that the printing uses green ink but they took the trouble to print one letter in red, giving … Continue reading
This is a menu cover we’ve seen before, but it’s not a menu. Instead, it’s the passenger list for the 10th annual convention of the American Association of Railroad Ticket Agents. Coincidentally, we’ve also seen a Canadian National menu used … Continue reading
As noted here a couple of days ago, in 1929 Canadian Pacific acquired twenty 2-10-4 locomotives, which it called Selkirks, from Montreal Locomotive Works, the Canadian subsidiary of the American Locomotive Company (ALCO). At 78,000 pounds of tractive effort, these … Continue reading
As I’ve noted before, in 1961 Canadian National changed its colors from drab black and green (with yellow locomotive noses) to even drabber black and dirty white (with red locomotive noses). This was at the same time that it updated … Continue reading
