We’ve previously seen an April 1961 Canadian Pacific timetable that featured a painting of the Canadian stopped at Banff. Today’s timetable shows a Nicholas Morant photo of the same train crossing Stoney Creek Bridge on its way to Banff and, eventually, Toronto and Montreal.

Click image to download a 29.5-MB PDF of this 36-page timetable.

The Banff painting was also used on the cover of the April 1962 and April 1963 timetables while the Stoney Creek Bridge photo was used on the October 1960 and 1962 timetables. In other words, the railway alternated images, using one in the spring and the other in the fall, during the early 1960s. This pattern apparently began in 1959 and lasted until 1964, when CP simplified its timetable covers to basic black.

CP timetables had been 68 pages in the 1940s but shrunk to 36 pages in the 1950s. This one is also 36 pages. I am grateful to Streamliner Memories reader Hans Krieger, a German fan of U.S. and Canadian railroads, for contributing scans of this and other timetables that I will present in the next few weeks.