The inside front cover of this timetable advertises “beautiful new planetarium-dome coaches” for the Texas Eagle. The illustration accompanying the ad strangely shows saguaro cactus, which doesn’t grow anywhere in Missouri Pacific territory. Click image to download a 24.7-MB PDF … Continue reading
After five years of the magazine-style timetable format, Missouri Pacific was becoming a bit repetitious. The inside front cover advertised generic Eagles trains. The first full-color article (the page before the centerfold map) was on Nebraska, with a note saying … Continue reading
For November, Missouri Pacific made a small change to the front cover. Instead of red and black, the strip on the bottom of the cover is printed in yellow and black. This is a lot easier to read. Click image … Continue reading
Full page, four-color articles in this issue describe America’s wheat belt (which only slightly overlapped with Missouri Pacific routes), San Francisco, the Royal Gorge route to California, and outdoor music concerts in St. Louis. The inside front cover announces that … Continue reading
Missouri Pacific issued four timetables a year, so April 1947 was probably the second magazine-style timetable issued by the railroad and this was the third. While the April issue had full-page, four-color articles about Denver and St. Louis, this one … Continue reading
This edition of MP’s magazine-style timetables had color photographs accompanying full-page articles about Omaha, Dallas, Salt Lake City, and (on the back cover) Mexico. Another article includes recipes for oyster bisque, creole potatoes, and pumpkin pie “recommended” by Missouri Pacific … Continue reading
Over the next several months I am going to present around 150 timetables, including more than 50 from the Burlington Route, more than 30 from the Rock Island, and more than 50 from a variety of other railroads. But first … Continue reading
I noted a few months ago how surprisingly colorful Missouri Pacific’s mid-1950s timetables were compared with those of other railroads. This is underscored by the drab Burlington timetable shown here a couple of weeks ago. Click image to download a … Continue reading
This timetable makes significant use of color that is absent from most railroad timetables. The four-color cover is one we have seen before and was used on MP timetables from about 1946 through 1960, which is even longer than Frisco … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s Iron Mountain Route timetable, this one is accompanied by a map showing all of Jay Gould’s railroads (I&GN, MKT, MP, and T&P) with thick lines, but the actual timetables focus on Missouri Pacific. One timetable does show the … Continue reading
