This menu uses the same photo as yesterday’s, but it lacks the extra flap that serves only to give the name of the train. Instead, “Domeliner City of Los Angeles appears at the top of page 2. This is one … Continue reading
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In keeping with a design change that was instituted in 1958 or earlier for Union Pacific’s dome-diners, this menu has a photo that fills the front cover but doesn’t wrap around to the back, there is an extra flap that … Continue reading
This 1960 menu features a view of Bryce Canyon that we haven’t seen before on a menu, though it appeared on the May, 1955 Union Pacific calendar. The back-cover text is nearly identical to the text used on other post-war … Continue reading
Here’s another menu printed for the City of Los Angeles dome dining car in 1958. Whereas yesterday’s menu offered steak, salmon, lamb chops, and ham, this one offered steak, trout, chicken, and prime rib. While yesterday’s was dated May and … Continue reading
I’ve previously noted a couple of variations in Union Pacific’s post-war color photo menus. First, some had photos only on the front cover, and not wrapping around to the back. Second, some had an extra fold, and the mini-page on … Continue reading
Until recently, I haven’t seen any college menus used on UP trains dated after 1952. But yesterday’s Midland College menu was dated January, 1953, and todays are even later in 1953. We’ve seen both of these covers before but with … Continue reading
Dated January, 1953, this menu highlights the fifth college in Nebraska to be featured on the cover of a UP menu. Most other states that were served by UP in the early 1950s only had one or two colleges on … Continue reading
This is the fourth college menu featuring a school from Nebraska. Though it has grown to nearly 3,000 students today, with just 400 students in 1952, Doane College (now University) was the smallest college featured on a UP menu. Click … Continue reading
This menu — one that I’ve hypothesized but hadn’t known about for certain until this year — features the Oregon State College (now Oregon State University) student union on the cover. I spent three years at OSU and don’t have … Continue reading
This menu was on my 2015 missing menus list. In fact, judging from some cover stains (which I Photoshopped out for the PDF), this appears to be the very same menu I saw on ebay in 2014. Union Pacific must … Continue reading