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
>
>
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>
>
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