Just over a year after Amtrak took over most passenger trains, the Rio Grande offered this menu to passengers on the Rio Grande Zephyr. It has far fewer offerings than yesterday’s 1966 menu, but that’s mainly because this is the … Continue reading
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With the Prospector on top and the California Zephyr along the bottom of this menu card, this could have been used on either train. However, it was probably used on the Prospector as the Cal Zephyr had its own, specially … Continue reading
In this 1946 menu, the wonders of four-color printing have replaced the lithographed covers of the Rio Grande’s pre-war menus. With yellow and green aspen and blue sky, the photo lives up to Colorado’s long-time tourist slogan, “Colorful Colorado” (though, … Continue reading
We saw this cover a few days ago on a 1938 dinner menu. It is curious that these covers all display the words “Breakfast” or “Dinner,” indicating that the two were printed separately. Many other railroads used a generic cover … Continue reading
We’ve already seen a 1941 dinner menu with this cover. Today’s menu, which is dated July 12, 1940, has a similar, but not quite identical, menu as yesterday’s breakfast menu. Click image to download a 1.6-MB PDF of this menu. … Continue reading
This handsome menu has a beautiful color cover that is unfortunately paired with an incomprehensible and unlikely Indian legend on the back. A date printed on the inside is August 12, 1938. Click image to download a 1.4-MB PDF of … Continue reading
These menus are from the California Railroad Museum, which posted them at archive.org as individual pages. All I’ve done is assemble them into PDFs. Those that are dated range from 1915 to 1927, but some probably fall outside that range. … Continue reading
I’ve shown this menu cover before in a post about the Exposition Flyer. But that was a low-resolution scan taken from another web site. This one is higher resolution and, unlike the other menu, it was never used so it … Continue reading
I’m pretty sure the cover of this menu depicts Mt. Massive, as seen from Leadville, Colorado. It’s either that or Mt. Elbert, which is a little to the south of Mt. Massive. The back cover says Elbert is Colorado’s second-highest … Continue reading
The back cover of this menu describes the lands between Salt Lake City and the Sierra Nevada as “the Western Garden of Allah.” Whether this was inspired by the Rock Island Railroad’s Garden of Allah book, or the 1936 movie … Continue reading