Yesterday’s April 1955 timetable was probably the last C&NW timetable before Union Pacific yanked its streamliners away from the North Western and over to the Milwaukee Road. It was 44 pages long, and this one is a respectable 36. Clearly, the North Western still operated a lot of passenger trains.

Click image to download a 23.9-MB PDF of this 36-page timetable.

The timetable devotes two pages to Chicago-Minneapolis trains, one to Chicago-Duluth, one to Chicago-Rapid City, two to Chicago-Omaha and nearby trains, two to trains to upper Wisconsin, two to Chicago-Green Bay, one to Chicago-Milwaukee, and one to Chicago-Madison. The timetable also includes four pages of mixed or freight-only routes.

Unfortunately, some North Western enthusiast cut one of the logos from the front cover of this timetable. I was able to “repair” it by copying and pasting the other logo, but not the text missing from the inside front cover. Fortunately, the inside front cover was used for “general information” that tended to be repeated from timetable to timetable.