At first glance, this timetable appears to be exactly like the one presented yesterday: 20 pages long with almost no ads but still lots of trains. However, a few trains have disappeared.

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The 1957 timetable gives travelers a choice of two trains a day between Minneapolis and St. Louis: the Zephyr Rocket and an unnamed train. The unnamed train (or trains, as the timetable shows four different train numbers, which meant at least some passengers had to change trains three times) didn’t sound terribly enticing as for part of the distance it was a mixed train carrying both passengers and freight. It was off the 1958 timetable.

The 1957 timetable shows a pair of trains, #16 & 17, between Minneapolis and Des Moines, in addition to two named trains on the same route, the Kansas City Rocket (which obviously went on to KC) and the Twin Star Rocket (which went on to Houston). Trains 16 & 17 were off the 1958 timetable.

The only other schedule I can find in the 1957 timetable that was missing in 1958 was Rock Island’s only passenger service in Louisiana, a motor car that went from Junction City on the Arkansas-Louisiana border to Winnfield, Louisiana. The motor car used for this service only had room for 12 passengers, so clearly demand was not very high.