This menu is identical to the one with the Missouri River bridge on the cover. The other side of this menu, however, is blank; perhaps Amtrak ran out of Union Pacific’s preprinted menus. It will always be clear which sites … Continue reading
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Union Pacific liked big, powerful locomotives, and in 1963 it asked Alco, General Electric, and General Motors to design Diesels that could produce at least 5,000 horsepower. Alco responded with the Alco Century 855, the most powerful Diesel built up … Continue reading
Before the Union Pacific Railroad, and long before Bonneville Dam, there was a small portage railroad to get around some rapids in the Columbia River at what is now called Cascade Locks. Howard Fogg portrays this portage railroad in this … Continue reading
Although Howard Fogg’s painting celebrates the Union Pacific’s first crossing of the Missouri River, it is much less of an advertisement for that railroad than yesterday’s (and much less likely to invite invidious comparisons between Amtrak and its predecessors). Like … Continue reading
Amtrak made no effort to disguise the fact that this cover painting by Howard Fogg advertises the Union Pacific Railroad. The other side of the menu also has a small image of a Union Pacific E locomotive, but Amtrak has … Continue reading
To start the New Year, I’m beginning to post items from the Bronze Age of rail passenger travel. If the Golden Age was the age of heavyweight trains–roughly 1900 to 1930–and the Silver Age was the age of lightweight streamlined … Continue reading
Here’s a menu that was missing from my collection but that I had documented in the California Railroad Museum’s collection. Now I’ve acquired one of my own. The interior says this menu was used on the City of San Francisco, … Continue reading
Many City of Denver menus featured photos of Denver parks and civic buildings on the covers, but that wasn’t always the case. We’ve seen this photo before on a 1965 City of Los Angeles breakfast menu, but the inside of … Continue reading
Until I found this menu on eBay, I knew about it only because it was visible in a postcard. This copy is dated July 2, 1954, and has a handwritten note saying “OK Jay 6/30,” suggesting that this was a … Continue reading
Until I found this menu, I was comfortable in the belief that UP had two college-oriented menus for most of the states it served, with four for California because it was so big and only one for Wyoming and perhaps … Continue reading