This 4-page brochure announces new schedules for the new trains advertised in yesterday’s timetable. The back page includes condensed schedules for 21 trains between New York/Boston and Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, and other major cities. Click image to download a … Continue reading
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The full-page ad on the front cover of this timetable (the back cover is shown below) announces “28 new streamliners for 1948.” This translated to fourteen pairs of trains, ranging from new all-Pullman 20th Century Limiteds and Commodore Vanderbilts to … Continue reading
During his proxy battle to take over the New York Central, Robert Young famously said, “A hog can cross the country without changing trains–but you can’t.” But that wasn’t quite true. As shown on page 2 of this timetable, New … Continue reading
The Harlem division was the first track of what became the New York Central. Starting in downtown Manhattan, it began as the world’s first streetcar line (powered by horses) in 1831 and reached Chatham, New York, by 1852. Although a … Continue reading
This brochure opens up to show a cutaway view of New York Central’s greater terminal. I’m not sure what is different about it that makes this a wartime view except for some of the numbers of travelers and telegrams that … Continue reading
New York Central’s timetable has shrunk four more pages since the World’s Fair edition. The “system map” on the cover doesn’t even bother to show Central’s secondary routes such as lines to Cairo and Peoria, Illinois; Grand Rapids and Mackinaw, … Continue reading
This timetable is just 24 pages long, but unlike the pre-war era, there wasn’t any need to have separate timetables for NYC’s various subsidiaries. I count just five trains a day from New York to Chicago and six from Chicago … Continue reading
Here are two more blotters from the Dale Hastin collection. The first advertises Niagara Falls, reached via New York Central subsidiary Michigan Central. Judging from the locomotive, which appears to be a 4-8-2 (compare with the second photo on this … Continue reading
This little along-the-way brochure is dated February 1954 and includes several of New York Central’s major routes in west-to-east format: Chicago-Buffalo via either Toledo or Detroit; Cleveland-Cincinnati; Cleveland-St. Louis; Cincinnati-Chicago; Albany-Boston; and Buffalo-New York. Click image to download a 2.5-MB … Continue reading
This 1953 brochure unfolds to 20″x27″ of text and graphics that are almost too busy. While one side describes destinations ranging from Mt. Hood to Washington, DC, the other side shows accommodations and fares on New York Central and connecting … Continue reading