The all-coach El Capitan began running in 1938, and judging from the prices this menu can’t have been used much later than that. The table d’hôte side offers a charcoal broiled sirloin steak with appetizer, soup, potatoes (but strangely no … Continue reading
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Here’s the dinner menu Rock Island used at the 1948-1949 Chicago Rail Fair. Dinner was $3, or about $30 in today’s money. Click image to download a 1.2-MB PDF of this menu. Normally aging is believed to be a major … Continue reading
The Rock Island offered lunch and dinner at the Chicago Rail Fair in its replica 1880s diner and modern Golden State Rocket Fiesta diner. Despite the Southwest theme of Rock Island’s exhibit, this menu didn’t have a particularly Southwest flavor. … Continue reading
This menu is undated, but the fact that it is for the Golden State Limited tells us that it from before 1947, as the train’s name was changed to just Golden State in that year. The prices on the menu … Continue reading
C&NW’s 1962 timetable showed the 400 leaving Chicago and Minneapolis at about 11 am and arriving at their opposite termini at about 7 pm, so there was time to serve both lunch and dinner in the diner. This 1964 dinner … Continue reading
Dated 1960, half of this menu offers a variety of alcoholic beverages and the other half has a much shorter selection of dinners. The menu doesn’t say so, but it obviously was used in the train’s cafe car rather than … Continue reading
The cover of this menu is probably meant to show off the C&NW as an exemplar of modern transportation in comparison to whatever kind of transport is being serviced by the blacksmith in the foreground. Inside, this is a lunch … Continue reading
This menu was used on the Ambassador, a train that connected Baltimore and Detroit until it was terminated in 1964. The menu is undated, but the prices look like the mid-1960s, so it was probably issued near the end of … Continue reading
These are all 1971 dinner menus marked for the City of Los Angeles. The first, which is dated January, has one of my favorite Union Pacific photos of Bryce as it is in the canyon rather than taken from the … Continue reading
Here are three more menus, all of which were used on the City of Los Angeles. First is a 1967 dinner menu similar to two of yesterday’s menus in that there is no a la carte section. However, four of … Continue reading