This menu offers a variety of a la carte breakfasts on the left side and beverages on the right. The a la carte menu isn’t identical to the breakfast menu shown here a few days ago, but those items that … Continue reading
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Here’s a dinette menu that is much more extensive than the one shown a few days ago. It offers six “special combination” entrées that come with potatoes, vegetable, and bread but not dessert or beverage. The a la carte side … Continue reading
I acquired this undated menu with several others that were dated from the late 1950s. However, this one might be more recent as it is printed on both sides, one side in English and one in French. Canada’s Parliament passed … Continue reading
While the dinette cars that would use yesterday’s menu were found on only a few trains, CN’s 1956 timetable lists several that had buffet cars, including the Montreal-Halifax Ocean and trains from Montreal to Washington, Montreal to Toronto, Toronto to … Continue reading
Some of Canadian National’s cafe car’s must have been pretty austere if this menu, which served for both lunch and dinner, is any indication. The two main entrées are “Chopped High Grade Beef on Heated Bun” (couldn’t they just say … Continue reading
The photo on the cover of this 1955 Mountaineer dinner menu shows “wood’n’wooly” skiers (wood skis, wool clothes) near Banff. But a caption on the back also notes there is fine skiing near Revelstoke and on Grouse Mountain near Vancouver. … Continue reading
One more dinner menu from someone’s 1950 Alaska steamship journey. This one features a cover painting by Carl Rungius. Rungius was a German painter who immigrated to the United States in 1896 to specialize in wildlife art, then opened a … Continue reading
Here’s another dinner menu from the Alaska steamship service. The inside front cover has a photo of a herd of caribou swimming in the Yukon River and one of a flower garden in Skagway. Click image to download a 1.4-MB … Continue reading
Here’s a dinner menu from what was probably the same Alaska steamship trip as yesterday’s tiffin menu. The cover proudly features what is no doubt Canadian Pacific’s flagship train, the Dominion, in the Canadian Rockies. The inside front cover has … Continue reading
Here’s another tiffin menu that must have been used on a different day on the same steamship trip as yesterday’s. The soup, salad, entrées, and desserts are all a little different. Click image to download a 496-KB PDF of this … Continue reading