The inside front cover of this timetable continues to promote the new Texas Eagle. The page before the centerfold map is an article about Austin while the page after is about Galveston. The inside back cover appears to be the first use of that space for freight train schedules.

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The back cover tells how the Missouri Pacific moved “a mountain to move trains faster.” Tip Top Mountain, the ad says, was the second-highest in Missouri (but just a little over 1,200 feet in elevation). “Missouri Pacific engineers have blasted and bulldozed two mile-long cuts,” the ad says, “through the mountain.” Environmentalists might object to such an action today, but I can’t find any railroads in the vicinity of Tip Top Mountain on local maps.

What does annoy me as a native of the West is Missouri Pacific’s frequent use of the phrase “West-Southwest” to refer to the territory it served. This seems to have begun about the time of this timetable. To me, except for its single line to Pueblo, none of the areas served by Missouri Pacific were in either the West or Southwest. Instead, I would call it “South Central.” For some reason, Missouri Pacific officials seemed to think that West-Southwest was more attractive.