We’ve previously seen a condensed version of this timetable, but Tim Zukas has kindly made a full version available. In 1947, as an ad on page 1 (the page after the inside front cover) observes, Union Pacific began offering daily streamliner service for all of its main streamliners: Denver, Los Angeles, Portland, San Francisco, and St. Louis. UP charged extra fares of up to $15 (more than $200 in today’s money) for the City of Los Angeles and City of San Francisco but not any other trains.

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Heavyweight cars were still used on most other routes, including the Portland-Seattle routes. Starting in 1943 or 1944, Union Pacific’s Portland-Seattle trains were numbered 457 and 458, numbers they would retain until Amtrak took over in 1971. Number 457 happened to be the best connection to Seattle for passengers on the City of Portland. It was also the connection for Southern Pacific’s West Coast and carried a sleeping car from that train that started its journey in Los Angeles.

UP’s train 458 also had a sleeping car that went to Los Angeles on SP’s West Coast. However, number 458 arrived in Portland too late to connect with the City of Portland, so passengers wanting to take that train would take Northern Pacific’s number 408. That train carried three sleeping cars that continued through to Oakland, probably on the Cascade. Great Northern’s trains at the time didn’t carry any through sleepers but did carry an observation parlor car that wasn’t found on the other roads’ trains.

Today’s timetable is twelve pages shorter than the 1942 timetable presented here yesterday. Half of that is due to the number of pages of branch line trains being reduced from nine to three. Other reductions were made by combining east- and westbound trains on some routes from two pages into one, reducing the number of pages used for railfares by one, and reducing the number of pages of station indexes by one.