I am mainly interested in passenger trains, so I have very few employee timetables in my collection since they aren’t something that passengers would normally encounter. However, Streamliner Memories reader Chris Taylor contributed this one, and I’m grateful to him … Continue reading
Category Archives: Baltimore & Ohio
A few days ago, I noted that the Burlington had eliminated all of its large ads from its timetable in 1944, possibly due to wartime paper shortages. Yet here is a B&O timetable issued in the midst of the war … Continue reading
Like the New York Central and Pennsylvania, B&O advertised a daily through sleeper to Los Angeles on the Super Chief. Unlike the Central and Pennsy, the B&O’s car started in Washington, making it the “only through Pullman service between Washington … Continue reading
In the 1920s, the New York Central and Pennsylvania were the only railroads that could take passengers between New York and Chicago in 20 hours, but they still had to compete with other railroads for East Coast-Midwest passengers. The most … Continue reading
The Pittsburgh & Western was a narrow-gauge railroad extending from Allegheny (across the Allegheny River from downtown Pittsburgh) to Orrville, Ohio, and also had a line north from Allegheny to Mount Jewett, Pennsylvania, almost on the New York border. This … Continue reading
The Ohio & Mississippi Railway connected Cincinnati with St. Louis. Ten years after this timetable was issued, it was taken over by the Baltimore & Ohio. Click image to download a 12.4-MB PDF of this timetable, which is from the … Continue reading
Like yesterday’s menu, this one was used on the Capitol Limited. However, it is larger (about 8″x11″ vs. 7″x10″) and has a few more items on it, including two plate meals. B&O never seemed to date its menus, so I … Continue reading
This dinner menu has the same cover (in a slightly different color) as yesterday’s lunch menu. Instead of advertising something as utilitarian as piggyback service, however, the back cover promotes the Strata-Domes in service “on three B&O Dieseliners”: the Capitol … Continue reading
The front cover of this lunch menu has a photo of the capitol building after which the Capitol Limited is named. The back cover, however, advertises the “new” trailer-on-flatcar service, which it notes was inaugurated on the Baltimore & Ohio … Continue reading
This timetable is a respectable 52 pages long. Twelve of those pages, however, are full-page ads or cutaway drawings of sleeping car accommodations. The actual timetables fill just 25 pages, including equipment lists but excluding fares, the station index, and … Continue reading