NP Winter-Spring 1953 Timetable

Northern Pacific’s Winter-Spring 1953 timetable (which appeared about nine months before its Fall-Winter 1953 timetable previously shown here) repeatedly advertises the North Coast Limited‘s “new fast schedule.” As noted here before, unlike Great Northern and the Milwaukee Road, NP didn’t speed up its premiere train when it streamlined it in 1948, instead waiting until 1952 when it had been able to rehabilitate the railroad after heavy wartime traffic. I also suspect that NP imagined that its customers would be loyal to it despite slower speeds, especially since it traversed a more heavily populated corridor than the Great Northern.

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The back of this timetable also notes that “A fleet of luxurious Vista-Dome cars is being ordered for this famous transcontinental streamliner.” That’s something that wasn’t mentioned in the Fall-Winter timetable.


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