Like the December 1957 timetable presented here yesterday, this one is 40 pages long. Unlike yesterday’s (and all that preceded it over the previous eleven years), the centerfold map no longer uses four colors. Where the 1946-1957 timetable maps were printed in yellow, rose, green, and blue, today’s is printed in shades of green and grey.

Click image to download a 20.4-MB PDF of this 40-page timetable.

Oddly, the Wx4 web site has a December 1957 timetable that is identical to the one presented here yesterday except that its centerfold map is printed in shades of yellow and grey. I don’t know why MP would have printed two different maps for the same timetable, but it is likely that all timetables in 1958 also had two color (one color plus grey) maps.

The inside front cover of today’s timetable advertises “travel tray [meals] on Eagle coaches.” These were “freshly prepared in the diner and conveniently served at your coach seat.” The trays, of course, saved both the railroad and travelers money by substituting paper napkins and disposable dinnerware for cloth tablecloths and napkins and porcelain china and heavy tableware.

The original Colorado Eagle carried a “grill coach” offering coach passengers low-cost meals. That was dropped some time in 1953. None of the other Eagles had a cafe car for coach passengers, so the tray meals were a concession that competition from buses and other forms of travel required providing such a service.

The inside and outside back covers advertised freight schedules and services. Articles inside the timetable promoted winter fun in Colorado, vacations in Hot Springs National Park, and various sleeping car services, but also had ads for freight trains.