Burlington November 1957 Timetable

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 image to download a 2.1-MB PDF of this timetable.

I count eleven different zephyrs listed on this timetable, and it also lists non-zephyr trains on the same routes as the zephyrs: Chicago-Denver, Chicago-Twin Cities, Chicago-Kansas City, Minneapolis-St. Louis, and Denver-Houston. The only non-zephyr routes included are Kansas City-Billings and Denver-Billings. But the timetable devotes four panels to rail fares and sleeping car fares, information that is usually left out of condensed timetables.


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