This is one of the first post-war timetables, and the nation was still demobilizing its armed forces. A full-page ad on the back encouraged people to “don’t give up” planning a trip just because the trains are full of “thousands of men in uniform” who are trying to return home. “Travel conditions are improving,” says the ad, so continue to plan and hope there will be space.

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“Your journey by rail will be the high-spot of your vacation or business trip,” the ad assures people. It almost sounds desperate that people not get into the habit of traveling by car or plane. In fact, the railroads were so confident that people would continue to travel by train that they ordered tens of millions of dollars worth of new passenger equipment. It wasn’t until the early 1950s that it became clear that the railroads were losing to the competition.

Unlike the 1941 timetable shown yesterday, which still had an M-10002-type locomotive on the cover, this one has an E6 similar to that used on the City of Los Angeles and City of San Francisco. These locomotives were put into service before the war, and UP had already ordered E7s that it would receive from EMD starting in August, 1946.

This timetable was four pages shorter than yesterday’s from 1941. Yesterday’s included a list of military bases and camps served by UP that took almost a full page. It also included two pages of rail fares where today’s has only one. Finally, yesterday’s included extra pages showing trains to Sun Valley and Yellowstone.