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At the end of 1954, New York Central’s timetable still filled 52 pages, the same as in 1946. But that doesn’t mean it was running as many trains as it did right after the war. Click image to download a … Continue reading
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With this timetable, New York Central reduced the 20th Century Limited‘s time from Chicago to New York to 15-1/2 hours, the fastest ever. The New York-to-Chicago time was 15-3/4 hours. The Chicago departure was moved from 3:30 to 4:00 pm, … Continue reading
In focusing on the coast-to-coast through-Pullman service over the last few days, I’ve neglected to mention the New York-Texas service that has generally been advertised on the third page of the timetables (though the page is numbered 1). New York … Continue reading
Despite having potentially the fastest connections, Rock Island/Southern Pacific dropped out of the coast-to-coast through-car service by the end of 1951. In the Los Angeles market, that left the Santa Fe with the 20th Century/Chief connection and Union Pacific with … Continue reading
Page 2 of this and the other post-war New York Central timetables shown here recently advertise the coast-to-coast sleeping cars offered by the Central and connecting railroads. I’ve previously told the story of these cars, but the trains used for … Continue reading
Within weeks of the end of World War II, New York Central placed the largest order for passenger cars in U.S. railroad history: 420 cars on top of 300 already under construction for the railroad. The December 15 1945 order … Continue reading
In 1947, New York Central was running 14 trains a day each way between New York City and Chicago. By the time of this timetable, two years later, that number had dropped to eight. Click image to download a 32.0-MB … Continue reading
The New York Central had eight trains a day between New York and Chicago, four between New York and St. Louis, and plenty of additional trains connecting Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, and Pittsburgh with each other and with New York … Continue reading
In 1934, even before the introduction of the Burlington Zephyr and Union Pacific’s M-10000, New York Central decided to jump on the streamlining bandwagon by putting a shroud on one of its Hudson locomotives. Carl Kantola, a civil engineer who … Continue reading
The end of the World’s Columbian Exposition also saw the end of the Exposition Flyer‘s 20-hour schedule. Initially, New York-Chicago passengers had to be content with journeys of at least 26 hours. In September 1894, the Central speeded up its … Continue reading