Sometime between 1946 and 1948, Santa Fe replaced its blue-and-white cover featuring the Grand Canyon with this more colorful but less scenic picture featuring “Chico,” the little boy adopted as a mascot by Santa Fe after the war. The exuberant 68-page timetable of 1946 has also shrunk to just 52 pages by 1948.
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Part of the shrinkage is the deletion of four pages of maps. But the main part is due to a reorganization of the timetable. Where the first half of the 1946 timetables included 18 pages of condensed schedules of all major trains while the detailed timetables were in the second half, this one focuses on just the detailed timetables and includes just six pages of condensed schedules.