The 1947 Oriental Limited consisted of hand-me-down equipment from the pre-streamlined Empire Builder. The train’s dining cars also received hand-me-down menus, in this case a menu with the same cover as one used on the Empire Builder in 1940. Click … Continue reading
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By 1949, Great Northern was using menus with Charlie Russell paintings on the cover for the streamlined Empire Builder. But when the train began operating in 1947, the menus were simpler, with a sketch of the train on the cover … Continue reading
This menu shows just how many more choices dining car patrons had before World War II than after. The table d’hôte (“plate dinner”) side has seven different entrées, ranging from roast duck to charcoal grilled dinner steak. The a la … Continue reading
The picture on the cover of this menu was also used on a blotter and no doubt other advertising materials. It depicts the launch St. Mary near Going to the Sun Chalets, visible on the hillside. This was the first … Continue reading
The black-and-white photograph on which the colorized image on this menu was based was taken by Thomas Magee, a postmaster in Browning, Montana who was married to a Blackfeet woman. As previously noted here, Great Northern publicists claimed that Two … Continue reading
The left side of this menu’s interior has beverages while the right side has a la carte. The menu doesn’t make clear whether it is for breakfast, lunch, or dinner; it offers eggs and omelets, suggesting breakfast; but also salads, … Continue reading
The cover of this menu calls the flowers pictured in the foreground “Indian basket grass” because the Indians used to weave the leaves into baskets. While that’s a valid name, the more common name is bear grass, while the scientific … Continue reading
In 1953, Canadian Pacific was still using the same basic menu featuring the Spiral Tunnels that it had used nearly 30 years before. However, the menu had been updated in several ways. Most importantly, the cover seems to be an … Continue reading
The Mountaineer was, in some senses, a secondary train to the Dominion, so it is not surprising that this 1951 dinner menu is a slight cut below yesterday’s lunch menu for the latter train. For one thing, it has fewer … Continue reading
This 1951 menu for Canadian Pacific’s premiere train, the Dominion, offered numerous entrées: ham & spinach; lamb stew; mushroom omelet; grilled or fried fish; chicken or salmon salad; and more. Most of these were available on both the table d’hôte … Continue reading