The eight years between 1878 and 1886 saw huge changes in the railroad industry. Some of these changes are visible by comparing the map in this brochure with the one in the Iron Mountain’s 1878 timetable. The 1878 map used … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen 1878 timetables for the International & Great Northern, Iron Mountain, and Texas & Pacific. By 1885, all three along with the Missouri-Kansas-Texas were firmly controlled by Jay Gould, who operated them together with Missouri Pacific. This timetable, … Continue reading
The St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway was, like the International & Great Northern, an independent railroad when this timetable was published but would be taken over by Jay Gould in 1883 and eventually became part of the Missouri … Continue reading
The International & Great Northern Railroad went from the east Texas town of Longview (where it met the Texas & Pacific) to Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and Laredo. At the time this map was issued in 1878, the extension to … Continue reading
This beautiful if imaginary scene shows the Colorado Eagle arriving somewhere in its namesake state. Missouri Pacific tracks only went as far as Pueblo. From there, the train was turned over to the Rio Grande, which took it north to … Continue reading
Hot Springs National Park is in a certain sense the world’s first national park, having been set aside by Congress as Hot Springs Reservation in 1832. Unlike most national parks since then, it wasn’t singled out for its outstanding scenery … Continue reading
Despite yesterday’s booklet, Missouri Pacific didn’t actually go to California. But it did go to Colorado, or at least, Pueblo, Colorado, from whence travelers could reach most of the rest of the state on MP’s former vassal railroad, the Rio … Continue reading
By 1927, when Missouri Pacific published this booklet, it had lost control of the Rio Grande and Western Pacific, so those railroads aren’t specifically mentioned here. The map in back, however, emphasizes them over the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific … Continue reading
This booklet is undated, but it refers to events that took place in 1908 so I am confident in dating it to 1909. At that time, Missouri Pacific effectively controlled the Rio Grande and Western Pacific, the latter of which … Continue reading
In 1966, Missouri Pacific’s timetable shrank from an eight-page booklet to the equivalent of six pages in a folder. The actual train schedules filled three pages of the previous edition, but only two are needed in the 1966 version. Click … Continue reading
