


Dining on the Rails: June – How about a salad?
For this month’s posting, we are welcoming summer with several cool salad recipes for those upcoming hot summer nights. Every railroad dining service seems to have a big salad of some kind. Whether it was a Chef’s Salad, a Big Salad Bowl, Help or Serve Yourself Salad...
Dining on the Rails, August 2020
Figure 1 Southern Pacific’s Roundhouse in San Francisco, circa 1909. Figure 2 Southern Pacific Freight Yards, San Francisco, circa 1909. “If it doesn’t splatter on your shirt, you’re not doing it right.” Like other railroad dining services, Southern Pacific featured...