As in May 1951, Burlington replaced its Zephyr back cover ad with one encouraging people to “Go West” on the Burlington. This one has a different graphic showing hikers and horseback riders in Colorado, Glacier, or some other mountainous region. … Continue reading
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This timetable was issued three months after yesterday’s and very little changed in that time. The back cover ad is identical to yesterday’s. The times of major trains are pretty much the same. The Black Hawk and Western Star are … Continue reading
The back cover of this timetable has another ad for Burlington Zephyrs. At least the headline isn’t “Diesel-Powered • Stainless Steel,” which as I suggested a few days ago, is redundant when referring to Zephyrs. Instead, the headline is “Luxurious … Continue reading
Riverside is about 11 miles west of Chicago Union Station and a third of the way to Aurora, where Burlington had its main shops and the terminus of Burlington’s commuter-rail line. Harlem Avenue is about a mile short of Riverside. … Continue reading
Though dated May, this timetable went into effect on April 29, exactly five weeks before the Great Northern replaced its heavyweight Oriental Limited with the streamlined Western Star, making it the first Northwest railroad to have not one but two … Continue reading
If Burlington hadn’t thought of it first, some other railroad, probably the Santa Fe, would have combined Diesel power with stainless steel to make a streamliner that was so different from all previous passenger trains that it woke up America. … Continue reading
After several years of minimal ads, this edition has a full-page ad on the back cover. The railroad had room for this because of the number of pages showing schedules for branch-line trains dropped from 7 to 5. Apparently some … Continue reading
Like the timetables presented here in the last couple of days, this one is practically ad-free. There are several small ads, the largest of which fills half a page and in total they probably would fill a little more than … Continue reading
I’ve previously noted that, for the sake of anniversaries, Burlington once considered its birth year to be 1850, the year the first train operated between Chicago and Aurora. But in 1949 the railroad changed that to 1849, the year Burlington’s … Continue reading
It seemed rather a slap in the face of its parent company for the Burlington to combine the North Coast Limited, Northern Pacific’s premiere train, with the Black Hawk, as it did in yesterday’s timetable. So it is no surprise … Continue reading