The Ohio & Mississippi Railway connected Cincinnati with St. Louis. Ten years after this timetable was issued, it was taken over by the Baltimore & Ohio.

Click image to download a 12.4-MB PDF of this timetable, which is from the David Rumsey map collection.

This timetable gives names to many of the trains, but they are really more descriptions than actual train names. Westbound, train 1 is listed as “Day Express,” train 3 is the “Night Express,” train 5 is the “Pacific Express” (which was also a night train but left four hours later than the Night Express), and train 9 was “Accommodation.” Presumably, trains 2, 4, 6, and 8 or 10 went in the other direction, but like other early timetables we have seen, this one only lists westbound trains.

One thing this timetable does include is a brief description of the equipment used for each train, something we haven’t seen on previous timetables. All of the trains had day coaches, while train 1 also had parlor cars and trains 3 and 5 had Palace sleeping cars. Train 1, which left Cincinnati at 8 am, also had a dining car until Seymour, where the train arrived at about 10:45 am. The brochure brags that the O&M was the only railroad running dining cars from Cincinnati west, but none of the trains appear to have had a dining car during lunch or dinner hours.

The brochure says that trains took 10 hours to get from Cincinnati to St. Louis. According to the timetable, train 1 actually took 10 hours and 20 minutes, while other trains took as long as 12 hours. This assumes the times don’t vary by city; standard time would not be established in the United States for two more years, but most railroads nonetheless set their clocks for the same time in all cities on their routes.