For November, Missouri Pacific made a small change to the front cover. Instead of red and black, the strip on the bottom of the cover is printed in yellow and black. This is a lot easier to read.

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As usual, the inside front cover is a full-color ad for a train, in this case the St. Louis-Galveston Texas Eagle, which MP had introduced on August 15. I’m sure it was no coincidence that Santa Fe had introduced its Chicago-Galveston Texas Chief earlier in the year on April 8.

Other full-page, four-color articles include one on the “world’s best grapefruit” grown in the Rio Grande Valley and St. Joseph, Missouri. The inside back cover was an ad for “world’s great musical comedies” on the “Railroad Hour,” which was broadcast on the ABC radio network while the back cover was an ad for Missouri Pacific freight services.

Timetable designers continued to innovate the tinted pages. Some are printed in green with black tints while others are printed in red with green tints. Sidebars on these pages include skiing in Colorado, Mexico, and St. Louis.

In previous editions, a tinted page near the back illustrated the various Pullman accommodations: section, roomette, double bedroom, drawing room, and compartment. This edition expands this to three tinted pages, allowing MP to separately list the accommodations by type of car: bedroom-roomette cars; section-roomette-bedrooms cars; and heavyweight cars. This means that some pictures, such as those for the double bedrooms, appear three times, but the railroad may have thought that separating the illustrations by type of car might reduce confusion.