The Colorado & Southern Railway, which published this booklet in 1905, was a strange combination of a standard-gauge railroad trending north-south from Cheyenne, Wyoming to the Texas border and some narrow-gauge railroads trending east-west into the Colorado Rockies. The north-south … Continue reading
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Two years after yesterday’s 1965 timetable, Burlington’s timetable lost another four pages. My 1966 timetable was 24 pages, so the four pages disappeared in 1967. All four pages were lost in the “complete schedules” section, mainly by the removal of … Continue reading
Burlington’s timetable lost four pages in the years between yesterday’s from 1960 and today’s. The general information and index pages were reduced from 3 to 2; condensed schedules went from 5 to 4 pages; while the complete schedules went from … Continue reading
This complete timetable has all of the trains that were on the 1957 timetable of principal trains plus several more. Among the lines too minor to be considered a “principal” route were St. Louis-Rock Island, St. Joseph-Lincoln, and several mixed … Continue reading
Here’s a wallet-sized calendar for 1958 featuring, on the side opposite the calendar, a Burlington locomotive passing a billboard showing a map of the railroad. The locomotive shown in the photo is numbered 9945A which, judging from photos, spent much … Continue reading
This is what other railroads call a “condensed” timetable, but Burlington just calls it “schedules of principal trains.” It manages to squeeze a lot of trains into seven panels, but still leaves out a number of branch line trains. Click … Continue reading
Here’s a dinner menu with the same date, March 1956, as yesterday’s lunch menu. This one is obviously marked for the Kansas City Zephyr instead of the Nebraska Zephyr, but I wouldn’t be surprised if all of the zephyrs during … Continue reading
In the mid-1950s, someone at the Burlington Route decided that all Zephyr menus should follow a single brand standard. This standard dispensed with beautiful cover photos of trains or scenery and enticing descriptions of places to go by train on … Continue reading
The illustration on this menu cover shows a Burlington E5 locomotive lettered “California Zephyr” pulling a train through Colorado’s Gore Canyon. Of course, no locomotives were ever lettered for the California Zephyr and Burlington locomotives are not likely to have … Continue reading
Here’s another Twin Zephyr menu, this one dated 1950. By that time, Burlington had replaced the 1936 Twin Zephyrs with the world’s first domeliner in scheduled service, consisting of a baggage-refreshment car, four dome coaches, a diner and dome-observation car. … Continue reading