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 - 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
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
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
Train type question To clarify that -- a baretable is a train of unloaded (empty) intermodal cars The term originates from the appearance of trailer-on-flatcar equipment: trailers riding on "tables" The usual purpose of such trains is to reposition equipment because of a traffic imbalance in a corridor, or to get it out of the way during a slow period (such as midweek)
Reno Fun Train? Fortunately there is an increasing fleet of private equipment that Key Holidays could charter, so the Fun Train is running again in 2013 The Snow Train is a companion midweek operation, running the same route on Tuesday-Thursday, using the same equipment, though often with fewer cars since the bookings are lighter