This timetable is 88 pages long. Except for a 1943 CN timetable, that’s by far the longest seen here on Streamliner Memories. Canadian Pacific timetables from this era maxed out at around 68 pages and U.S. railroad timetables were usually even smaller.

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Eight full pages are devoted to transcontinental service between Vancouver and Montreal/Toronto. This was provided by the mostly streamlined Super Continental and the partially streamlined Continental. The latter train took about 12 more hours because it made more stops.

Three-and-one-half pages are used for Montreal-Halifax trains, including the Ocean Limited, the Scotian, and the Maritime Express (which made the most stops).

A full 48 pages, longer than the entire timetables for most other railroads, are used for more local trains ranging from Montreal-Quebec to Edmonton-Dawson Creek (BC, not Yukon). The station index fills eight-and-one-half pages, and the rest is for fares, connections, a few steamship schedules, advertising, and a list of railway agents.

Canadian National didn’t hesitate to list connections with rival railroads on the same pages as its timetables. The timetable for Vancouver-Montreal/Toronto trains lists Great Northern trains from Winnipeg to St. Paul and Vancouver to Seattle as well as Canadian Pacific steamships from Vancouver to Victoria. Other railroads might include such connections, but only on a much later page in their timetables.

Like the 1955 Canadian Pacific timetable presented here a few weeks ago, this timetable is based on scans contributed by Streamliner Memories reader Ellery Goode. Starting in late May, I’ll have more of his timetables from a variety of U.S. railroads.