This 1929 booklet calls the San Isabel National Forest “Colorado’s newest playground.” But it was hardly new, as it was created in 1902 by Theodore Roosevelt and became one of scores of forests that originally were managed for cattle grazing … Continue reading
Annoyingly, the inside front cover of this timetable says that the Eagles are the “smoothest way West-Southwest.” As I complained a few days ago, except for its line to Pueblo, Missouri Pacific didn’t serve the West or the Southwest, so … Continue reading
The inside front cover of this timetable has nice silhouettes of ten sets of MP passenger Diesels and the first car of passenger trains representing the various members of the Eagle “flock.” That includes the St. Louis-Texas Texas Eagle, St. … Continue reading
The inside front cover of this timetable advertises that the Texas Eagles go between St. Louis and Texas “overnight,” allowing for morning arrivals in St. Louis and reasonable arrivals at “most of the principal cities of Texas.” If the principal … Continue reading
The inside front cover of this timetable continues to promote the new Texas Eagle. The page before the centerfold map is an article about Austin while the page after is about Galveston. The inside back cover appears to be the … Continue reading
The inside front cover of this timetable “welcomes the Texas Eagles, 4 new streamliners between New York, Washington, St. Louis and the principal cities of Texas.” Though this timetable went into effect on August 29, the Texas Eagles were inaugurated … Continue reading
The inside front cover of this timetable advertises the through sleeping cars and coaches between New York and Texas on the Sunshine Special, a train that was inaugurated in 1915 and probably still carried heavyweight cars (and is shown being … Continue reading
The inside front cover of this timetable is another ad for the Thrift-T-Sleeper service on the Colorado Eagle. But page 9 and the back cover offer a new wrinkle with an announcement that Baltimore & Ohio’s Slumbercoach from Washington to … Continue reading
This edition of the MP timetable has four-color images on the outside and inside front and back covers, but like yesterday’s, the centerfold map no longer uses four colors. Indeed, it is strange that the centerfold map of Monday’s December … Continue reading
Like the December 1957 timetable presented here yesterday, this one is 40 pages long. Unlike yesterday’s (and all that preceded it over the previous eleven years), the centerfold map no longer uses four colors. Where the 1946-1957 timetable maps were … Continue reading
