THE PAST IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY; THEY DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY THERE: A Newly Digitized Menu Collection Shows Off America’s Lost Railroad Cuisine.

Alfred Hitchcock never intended  1959’s North By Northwest to be a documentary on culture in the late 1950s, but between New York City and the New York Central’s 20th Century Limited, it’s astonishing how much rot seeped in within a decade or so. (Vertigo works much the same way for ‘50s-era San Francisco.)