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Re: [BRHSlist] Dining Car Meals...menus

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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Dining Car Meals...menus
From: tim fleck <tf5077@y...>
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:47:40 -0800 (PST)
In-reply-to: <1cc.390a753.2b8c2674@a...>
OH, By the way Pete let me know when your wife fixes
this up and I'll be over for supper...





--- PSHedgpeth@a... wrote:
> Yesterday while watching a program on the "Cooking
> Channel" I saw some chef 
> preparing some kind of chicken dish in a sort of
> soup or "fricasee" to be 
> served over rice (I think).
> 
> Anyhow it brought back a long ago trip with my
> grandfather (probably early 
> 1940's) from Lincoln, NE to Sheridan WY on Train No.
> 43. My memory is of 
> eating some kind of similar chicken, in a liquid or
> semi liquid state as we 
> traversed Northwest Nebraska in the vicinity of the
> (former) Belmont 
> Tunnel...This would have been for the noon
> meal.....I checked a 1940 Alliance 
> Division timetable and that confirmed my memory that
> No. 43 was in that 
> vicinity from around 11:30am to 12:00 noon.
> 
> I'll never forget that chicken dish because it was
> soooooo good...and I don't 
> ever remember having anything like it since. 
> 
> Here's the question????Anybody have knowledge of or
> access to a dining car 
> menu that would have been in effect on that train in
> that year...I'd really 
> like to know what it was and maybe get my wife to
> fix it for me...She's 
> pretty good at identifying and recreating food items
> from menus and just 
> knowing what it was that I ate on that long ago trip
> would be nice for me.
> 
> A couple of other things that I recall from that
> trip was that No. 43 had an 
> open platform observation car and I was permitted to
> ride said open platform 
> for some portion of the trip...Also, and I don't
> remember which way it was, 
> going out (westbound) or coming back (eastbound)
> that I was not allowed to go 
> on the rear platform while we were going through the
> Belmont Tunnel, sinc the 
> engine (steam) would be working and the smoke and
> gas would not be "health" 
> for me. I don't know wether westbound or eastbound
> is uphill....
> 
> Anyhow...how about you guys with some knowledge of
> or access to information 
> re dining cars of the 1940's...how about some help
> with the chicken dish.
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
> 
> 


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