Menu: Lackawanna Railroad. The Phoebe Snow. Buffet Menu. Dated March 25, 1960.

Name/Title

Menu: Lackawanna Railroad. "The Phoebe Snow." Buffet Menu. Dated March 25, 1960.

Entry/Object ID

2013.005.0208

Scope and Content

Menu: Lackawanna Railroad. De Luxe Daylight Streamliner " The Phoebe Snow " Between New York and Buffalo. Buffet Menu. Dated March 25, 1960. Printed folio gloss cover stock, 6-1/2" wide x 10" high, [4] pp; 2 punched holes at right on cover (apparently for a file binder); ink notation on cover for date: 3/25/60. This menu was not for the single date, but was printed or first used on March 25, 1960 (the date also appears printed at the bottom left of page [2]). Food service including this menu was managed from Hoboken (the eastern rail terminus for the train even though it states "New York" - ferry was required to and from N.Y. via Hoboken.) Listed is: J.R. Meredith, Dining Car Service, Hoboken, N.J. The cover has an artist's depiction of the train at the Lackawanna Terminal in Hoboken; it is is a fantasy view with the Manhattan skyline across the Hudson River and the terminal itself not in the view except for distant passenger platform shed. It is likely among the last printed with the names Lackawanna Railroad and Phoebe Snow on it (there may have been later summer or fall menus.) In October 1960, the Lackawanna - Erie merger went into effect and subsequently it was called the Erie-Lackawanna Railroad. That year was also the end of the Phoebe Snow as a Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad train, but it was to return in 1963 for short period under the Erie-Lackawanna.

Acquisition

Accession

2013.005

Source or Donor

Lukacs, Claire

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Museum Collections. Gift of a Friend of the Museum.

Archive Details

Date(s) of Creation

1960 - 1960

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1960 Date(s): 1960

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

General Notes

Note

Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2013-08-16