- Midweek Menu - Northern Pacific
Since my post last week of Reading CNJ dining car service was well received, I thought I would try again, this time with early 20th century Northern Pacific While the NP promoted itself as quot;The Route of the Big Baked Potato quot;, they also did several other themes based on produce grown al
- Midweek Menu - Erie Lackawanna
To follow on to the previous two weeks of Midweek Menu - the DL amp;W and the Erie, I am following on with the Erie Lackawanna When the Erie and the Lackawanna merged their dining car departments in 1956, it was J M Collins, the Erie's Director of Dining Car Operations who took over the combine
- Midweek Menu - something different - Pullman cocktails!
I wanted to do something a little different this week, so I thought I would talk about how the railroads and especially the Pullman Company were influential in the golden era of cocktails, especially in the years prior to Prohibition Photo 1: Pullman menu from 1903 - the Martini and
- Midweek Menu - Missouri Pacific
The Missouri Pacific in the pre-WWII era provided a very traditional, Southern-inspired cuisine fit the tastes of the passengers in the region After the streamliners came, the food became more quot;mid-America quot; centric MoPac was also well known for aggressively discontinuing passenger tra
- Midweek Menu - Soo Line
The Minneapolis, St Paul and Sault Ste Marie - the Soo Line, had several passenger trains that ran jointly with its parent, the Canadian Pacific, such as the quot;Winnipeger quot; and the Summer-only quot;Mountaineer quot; However it appears that these trains operated with standard Canadian P
- Midweek Menu - Rock Island
The Chicago Rock Island amp; Pacific - the Rock Island had the distinction of remaining in the passenger business after Amtrak was created, with the Chicago-Peoria Peoria Rocket and the Chicago-Rock Island Quad Cities Rocket lasting until the end of 1978 Many of us did not experience Rock Island
- New BNSF 3300s passed US Olympic Museum Bridge
BNSF 4289, ES44C4, passed US Olympic amp; Paralympic Museum pedistrian bridge with new Wabtec built ES44ACH units; BNSF 3344, 3349, 3346, 3339, 3347, and 3348 Colorado Springs, CO, on Friday, 21 November 2025 Train came from Hazlet, TX, Alliance Yard, headed to
- Arkansas amp; Missouri operations today - Trainorders. com
I also heard a mid-afternoon southbound one day midweek, when passenger trains were only scheduled for Saturday The radio system is interesting, the 2 talking detectors between Fayetteville and Van Buren at mileposts 373 6 (north of Winslow) and 386 1 (Chester) can be easily heard in Fayetteville, about mp 352, despite Chester being near the
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