Santa Fe March 1946 Timetable

At 68 pages, this is the largest Santa Fe timetable I’ve seen. Compared with the 64-page, pre-war timetables, the extra pages include advertisements, “miscellaneous information,” and one more page of sample fares.

Click image to download a 45.7-MB PDF of this 68-page timetable.

The back cover ad is a rather complicated listing of which trains offered dining car service over which portions of their routes. Apparently, in 1946 Santa Fe still didn’t have enough dining cars to accompany all trains the full length of their trips. Using the dining cars during just part of the trips saved money on fuel (and the cost of dining cars), but the time switching dining cars into and out of trains added to trip times, making trains less competitive with driving.


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