As noted yesterday, for most of the 1970s Rock Island still ran Chicago-Peoria and Chicago-Rock Island intercity trains. But it also ran commuter trains between Chicago and Joliet. Like most Chicago commuter railroads, Rock Island had adopted bi-level commuter cars, … Continue reading
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Shockingly, by 1967 Rock Island’s timetable had shrunk to a four-panel brochure, each panel about 4″x9″, thus making it about the same size as the 1964 condensed timetable. This was probably the last timetable listing the Golden State, which would … Continue reading
In 1965, Rock Island drastically changed the format of its timetables. Instead of the usual 8″x9″, the pages of the new timetables were 4″x9″. With 12 pages, they had the same amount of space as six pages of the older … Continue reading
Even Rock Island’s condensed timetables were shrinking in the mid-1960s. Where the 1962 condensed timetable shown here a couple of days ago consisted of three 4″ wide panels (the equivalent, counting both sides, of 3 pages of a regular timetable), … Continue reading
This 20-page timetable not only has a two-page centerfold map, it has two full-page ads. It fit the ads in by cutting the list of ticket agents from two pages to one and cutting the list of rail fares from … Continue reading
Here’s another condensed timetable that, like the one from 1958, manages to compress four of the 20 pages of the standard timetable into just two pages, and leaves most everything else out. This one removes some white space from the … Continue reading
A number of changes were made in the 18 months between yesterday’s timetable and today’s. The most obvious is that the one-page map on page 5, which is where it was located since the timetables were cut to 20 pages … Continue reading
As with yesterday’s timetable, this one has no major changes but it does have some minor tinkering in the schedules. Fifteen minutes have been added to the schedule of train #9, the southbound Corn Belt Rocket, between Minneapolis and Omaha. … Continue reading
It took me awhile to figure out why some Rock Island timetables of the 1950s had black logos on a red background while others had red logos on a black background. It appears the black logos were on spring-summer timetables … Continue reading
The schedules on this timetable are pretty similar to those on the April 1958 edition with the exception of the disappearance of trains 11 & 12. While there must be some minor changes, the only major change I can find … Continue reading