Most of the Rock Island timetables we’ve seen went into effect in either April/May or October/November. This condensed timetable, which compresses four pages of the standard timetable into two, is dated “effective June 29.”

Click image to download an 1.6-MB PDF of this 2-page timetable.

A close look reveals one difference between the schedules in this timetable and yesterday’s from April: trains #11 & 12 between Chicago and Rock Island have disappeared. The railroad still had four other trains on this route, all of which went beyond Rock Island to Des Moines, Omaha, or Denver/Colorado Springs. These other trains had sleeping cars and/or dining and lounge cars, while 11 & 12 were coach only and probably carried head-end cars that could just as well be carried on another train.