Nostalgia & History > Midweek Menu - Leftovers

A year or so ago I was putting out a "Midweek Menu" - each time focusing on a specific railroad.  I think I did about 15 to 20 of them, but eventually I ran out of railroads or I just wasn't able to find menus from certain railroads (Maine Central, Central of Georgia, etc.).

However I have many menus that I didn't get to use or that I have picked up since then, so I thought I would offer up an assortment of these "leftovers":

Photos 1-3: Louisville & Nashville menus from January, 1941.

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The Bangor & Aroostook's dining car service has been elusive to me.  Serving such a remote area I have not been able to find a lot of material.  I did win this 1958 menu from ebay.  By then they were nearing the end of service so the menu was probably much reduced, but still able to provide a real meal.

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Another obscure dining car service would be the Yosemite Valley.  While again the food offerings are modest, I'm sure the scenery made up for it!

Photo 7: An early breakfast menu
Photo 8: Breakfast menu from 1942
Photo 9: meal check


 



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/09/20 08:32 by njmidland.

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Reading these old menus, I can imagine people sitting at white table-clothed tables reading the menu, deciding what they wanted, all the while looking out the window at the scenery flying by. I discovered what became my favorite breakfast, shirred eggs, from a DR&W menu from 1907, I think, that someone posted on here last year. Was that you?

Hostesses not waiters on the Bangor & Aroostook's dining car, interesting!

And to finish up for now, here are some single page menus:

Picture 10: Illinois Central "City of New Orleans" dinner menu from July of 1947.
Picture 11: Rio Grande "Royal Gorge" breakfast menu from September of 1961.
Picture 12: An early Erie Lackawanna buffet menu.

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Thanks so much for posting.  Can never get enough of old dining car menus.

-John

The same colorful graphics seen on the Rio Grande menu were also used on company letterhead stationary of the era.

This is a very welcome return to these pages.  Much appreciated here.

AA

Stanford White
Carmel Valley, CA

Thanks for this interesting post.  The variety of the L&N menu is amazing.  On the other hand, the IC menu choices seem rather limited, especially for a name train like the City of New Orleans.  

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> Hostesses not waiters on the Bangor & Aroostook's
> dining car, interesting!

The superindendent of dining cars was a woman too. A definite break from tradition at the time.