By 1969, the Northern Pacific timetable has shrunk to the equivalent of eight pages and looks more like what was once called a “condensed timetable.” Unlike the 1966 timetable, this one for 1969 doesn’t have an index of stations, fares, or a lot of connecting trains in Chicago. It does show some bus routes that replaced NP branch-line trains plus a connection at Portland with the Southern Pacific to San Francisco and Los Angeles and a connection at Butte with the Union Pacific to Salt Lake City.
Click image to download a 4.8-MB PDF of this timetable.
Trains 3 and 4, from St. Paul to somewhere in North Dakota (Jamestown in 1966) are gone. But, in addition to the North Coast Limited, Mainstreeter, and Seattle-Portland service, the timetable still shows two trains in Minnesota-North Dakota: Duluth to Staples and Fargo to Winnipeg. Surprisingly, Northern Pacific’s train from Minneapolis to Duluth, which seems like would be more popular, is gone.
Oops, wrong timetable! Where’s the 1969?
Sorry–the perils of cut-and-paste. Fixed it now.