Southern Pacific April 1950 Timetable

This November, people once again debated the change to and from Daylight Savings Time. In 1950, a number of states pushed the clocks back in the fall, but it was far from uniform. The front cover of this timetable reminds travelers that, no matter what state they are in, the railroads refused to observe Daylight Savings Time. “Where Daylight Savings Times is in effect,” it says, “travelers should remember that trains will operate one hour later by their watch than the times shown in this folder.” At least it wasn’t one hour earlier.

Click image to download a 23.1-MB PDF of this 52-page timetable.

We’ve already seen the July, 1949 timetable that introduced the Shasta Daylight, which began running on the tenth of that month. That train is also featured in two ads in this timetable, one of which calls it “America’s most beautiful streamliner.” “Enjoy Lassen Peak, Odell Lake and mighty Mt. Shasta all in grandstand style through extra-huge picture windows,” says the other.


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