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Canadian National Breakfast Menu

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Train Lover
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While the dinette cars that would use yesterday’s menu were found on only a few trains, CN’s 1956 timetable lists several that had buffet cars, including the Montreal-Halifax Ocean and trains from Montreal to Washington, Montreal to Toronto, Toronto to … Continue reading →

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Canadian National 1956 Dinette Menu

Posted on December 1, 2017 by Train Lover
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Some of Canadian National’s cafe car’s must have been pretty austere if this menu, which served for both lunch and dinner, is any indication. The two main entrĂ©es are “Chopped High Grade Beef on Heated Bun” (couldn’t they just say … Continue reading →

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The Triangle Route in 1954

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Train Lover
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Canadian National had Dieselized its mainline trains with the introduction of the Super Continental in April, 1954, two months after this publication was issued. While images of that train is shown on the front and back covers, page 2 shows … Continue reading →

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Jasper in 1950

Posted on November 29, 2017 by Train Lover
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This edition of Canadian National’s Jasper Park booklet seems to be channeling Great Northern’s later Big Sky Blue color scheme, as a dozen or so pages heavily rely on blue which is apparently meant to indicate blue skies in otherwise … Continue reading →

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Canadian National 1943 Timetable

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Train Lover
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This edition is packed with timetables, as ads are minimized and most of them are related to the war. At 88 pages, this timetable is very large, and like yesterday’s booklet, that makes the PDF large. Click image to download … Continue reading →

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Scenic Canada: 1924

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Train Lover
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The 7″-by-10″ booklet consists mainly of 87 full-page, black-and-white photographs of scenery along Canadian National’s route. Unlike later booklets that emphasized the spectacular scenery in the Rocky Mountains, this one includes only about ten photos in the Rockies, fewer than … Continue reading →

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The North American Alps

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Train Lover
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Financed by the profitable Grand Trunk Railroad, which operated in Canada’s most heavily populated provinces, Canadian National predecessor Grand Trunk Pacific was the most significant threat to Canadian Pacific’s dominance of transcontinental traffic. It terminated at Prince Rupert instead of … Continue reading →

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Canadian National Fall 1971 Timetable

Posted on July 19, 2016 by Train Lover
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CN lost about half its passenger trains from the 1963 timetable to 1971. The 1971 edition is just 24 pages long (plus covers), down from 64 in 1963, and contains about 51 table, down from 98. The system map, now … Continue reading →

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Canadian National 1968 Map

Posted on July 18, 2016 by Train Lover
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Except for the cover panel, this map is almost exactly the same as the 1967 edition. Photos of Winnipeg and Edmonton street scenes in the panels on Manitoba and Alberta have been replaced, probably because they weren’t very attractive or … Continue reading →

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Canadian National 1967 Map

Posted on July 17, 2016 by Train Lover
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CN changed the dimensions of its maps again in the 1960s. Where the 1960 map was about 34″x22″, by 1967 it had grown by about 8 percent to 32″x25-1/4″. In keeping with CN’s claim to be the only railroad that … Continue reading →

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