After shrinking its system timetable from 56 to 52 pages in 1949, Southern Pacific shrank it again to 48 pages in 1952. One reason was that SP sold its West Coast of Mexico route to the Mexican government; it courteously included a timetable for the route but it took much less space than before, saving a page. Pages showing local trains in California, Texas, and elsewhere were also deleted.
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The other big changes are to the cover. The back cover (shown above) changed from a romantic view of the Coast Daylight in palm trees to the above images of SP’s newest streamlined trains. The paper, however, has been downgraded; where in 1951 it was better quality than the newsprint used for the inside pages and printed with two colors, in this 1952 timetable it was the same pulpy newsprint printed only with black ink.