A little attrition is evident since the previous timetable that was shown here yesterday. Where the winter 1964 timetable had two trains a day between Fort Worth and El Paso, the spring 1965 timetable has only one. Click image to … Continue reading
This timetable is down to eight pages, but Missouri Pacific still had plenty of passenger trains in 1964. In fact, it had two to four daily trains on many routes. St. Louis-Kansas City had four trains a day, one of … Continue reading
By the time of this timetable, Missouri Pacific had replaced the Scenic Limited with the Colorado Eagle, which connected with Rio Grande’s Royal Gorge train in Colorado Springs. Other streamlined trains in this timetable include the St. Louis-Omaha Missouri River … Continue reading
The colorful cover of this 68-page guide shows the Royal Gorge, Moffat Tunnel, and Colorado Rockies juxtaposed with Mexico, ocean beaches, and a major city with skyscrapers too numerous to be Denver in the 1930s. The equally colorful map on … Continue reading
Missouri Pacific’s 1966 timetable filled the equivalent of six pages and listed a dozen daily trains. Just two years later, this timetable from the collection of Streamliner Memories friend Bruce Adams had shrunk to two pages showing just five daily … Continue reading
Rock Island advertising claimed Colorado skies were turquoise, which doesn’t seem right to me. A bit more realistic is Missouri Pacific’s claim that San Antonio skies are sapphire blue. However, the interior pages are printed in sepia tones with a … Continue reading
Missouri Pacific was down to a two dozen daily trains (a dozen in each direction) in 1966. The railroad had dropped all but three of its named trains, and two of those names were really the same train while one … Continue reading
In 1960, MP had four trains a day between St. Louis and Kansas City. One, the Missouri River Eagle, continued to Omaha, while another, the Colorado Eagle, continued to Pueblo with a connection at Kansas City with the Los Angeles-bound … Continue reading
Here are three more Missouri Pacific/Texas & Pacific blotters from Dale Hastin’s collection. The first has a 1947 calendar on it, which means it was probably printed in 1946. This blotter is somewhat premature. The first Eagle streamliner was inaugurated … Continue reading
Here are four more Missouri Pacific blotters from the Dale Hastin collection. They all have the “Service Institution” slogan and none mention the Eagle streamline, which was inaugurated in 1940, so I suspect they are from before 1940. Other than … Continue reading
