Yesterday, I mentioned that in 1950 the Lackawanna had four trains from New York City to Buffalo: the Phoebe Snow, Twilight, Westerner, and the Owl. Except for the Phoebe Snow, their eastbound counterparts used different names. These were the Pocono … Continue reading
“Take the route of the Phoebe Snow for your vacation,” implores a full-page ad on the front cover of this timetable (the cover below being the back cover). The ad includes photos of Niagara Falls, Delaware Water Gap, Grand Canyon, … Continue reading
This would be one of the last Lackawanna timetables before the railroad merged with the Erie on October 17, 1960. The 16-page timetable is full of fluff, as the railroad really had only four trains a day between Hoboken and … Continue reading
The Lackawanna didn’t make it any further west than Buffalo, but that didn’t stop it from offering escorted tours to Colorado, Yellowstone, California, and the Pacific Northwest. The California tours in this 1940 booklet had the added bonus of including … Continue reading
The booklet is less about the train named Phoebe Snow and more about the advertising icon for which the train was named. At the turn of the 20th century, the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad burned anthracite coal to power … Continue reading
