Even Rock Island’s condensed timetables were shrinking in the mid-1960s. Where the 1962 condensed timetable shown here a couple of days ago consisted of three 4″ wide panels (the equivalent, counting both sides, of 3 pages of a regular timetable), this one just has two such panels (equal to 2 pages of a standard timetable).

Click image to download an 1.1-MB PDF of this 4-page timetable.

Not surprisingly, there were several changes since the timetable presented yesterday. The Choctaw Rockette, an RDC between Memphis and Amarillo, was off the timetable. Trains #39 & 40, once called the Imperial, now only went as far east as Kansas City, where Chicago passengers had to transfer to trains #15 & 16, once called the Kansas City Rocket, and then change trains again in Des Moines to #5 & 6, still called the Des Moines Rocket.