This edition of MP’s magazine-style timetables had color photographs accompanying full-page articles about Omaha, Dallas, Salt Lake City, and (on the back cover) Mexico. Another article includes recipes for oyster bisque, creole potatoes, and pumpkin pie “recommended” by Missouri Pacific chefs.

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In addition to the full-color pages, some pages are tinted in green and yellow. Articles on these pages briefly describe Louisiana, Natchez, Fort Smith Arkansas, and Hutchinson, Kansas.

Despite the streamliner on the cover, the inside front cover advertises the Sunshine Special, a steam-powered, heavyweight train between St. Louis and various cities in Texas. Via the New York Central and Pennsylvania north of St. Louis and Nacionales de México south of Laredo, the train offered through cars from New York City to Mexico City.

An ad on page 7 points out that the railroad would soon offer “Astra-Dome” cars on its Colorado Eagle streamliners. The term Astra-Dome was more closely associated with Pullman domes and the illustration in the ad shows flat-paneled glass windows found on some Pullman domes, but in fact the domes purchased by Missouri Pacific had curved glass and were manufactured by Budd.

One of the trivia articles in this timetable tells the origins of some city names, including Natchez, Kansas City, and Laredo. According to the article, one small town in Arkansas, Guion, was originally called “Wild Haul Landing.” It got its current name when a passenger asked a conductor, “What’s the name of this town?” The conductor answered, “Guy on,” which the article explains meant “Go ahead and joke if you wish.”

In fact, according to the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, it is much more likely that the town was named for Iron Mountain Railroad official J.H. Guion. It’s hard to guess why the MP (which had absorbed the Iron Mountain) made up this story since they should have been pleased to have a town named for one of their own.