One page of Burlington’s system timetables, such as the one shown here yesterday, was devoted to Colorado & Southern’s Denver-Texas trains. That page also showed six Denver-Pueblo trains, two of which were operated by Colorado & Southern and the other four by Rio Grande and Santa Fe. Colorado & Southern also owned the tracks from Denver to Wendover, Wyoming, which were used for part of the Denver-Billings passenger route, which filled half a page in the system timetable.

Click image to download a 5.4-MB PDF of this 8-page timetable.

This Colorado & Southern timetable expands that one-and-a-half pages to eight pages. While the schedules themselves use only one-and-a-half pages, the rest of the timetable include a station index, a list of connecting trains, a centerfold map, fare information, and Burlington agents.

The Rio Grande and Santa Fe trains between Denver and Pueblo are not included, which is odd as the timetable had room for bus schedules between Denver and Boulder and between Houston and Galveston. The Denver-Pueblo route was known as the Joint Line as it was jointly operated by the three railroads.

Burlington’s system timetables continued to show the Rio Grande and Santa Fe trains on this segment at least into 1959. None of these were specifically Denver-Pueblo trains but just the Denver-Pueblo portions of long-distance trains such as the Royal Gorge or Texas Zephyr. Still, the presence of six trains a day in each direction must have attracted use by many locals.