Southern Pacific July 1941 Timetable

This timetable has just 24 pages. The back cover (shown below) doesn’t say so, but the front cover says, in tiny print, “Condensed Through Schedules.” There are no full-page ads, timetables are abbreviated, and the station index is reduced from three pages to one. Like the full timetables, the cover shown below is actually the back cover.

Click image to download a 11.8-MB PDF of this 24-page timetable.

The printer marks say 40,000 copies of this timetable were printed, while the print runs for the full system timetables were 100,000 to 110,000. SP printed new timetables every two to three months. It’s hard to imagine today that passenger trains were once so heavily used that the railroad needed to print between a half million and a million timetables per year.


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