Here’s a full, “ticket agent edition” timetable issued a few months after yesterday’s, so the schedules are pretty much the same. The ad on the back cover indicates that Santa Fe was finally offering dining car service for the full length of all of its long-distance trains. The last Santa Fe train that required passengers to eat at dining stations — and perhaps the last train in the country to do so — was the California Limited, which (as noted yesterday) made its last run in June 1954.
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As the back cover of the 1951 timetable indicated, the California Limited had a dining car as far west as La Junta. West of La Junta, the timetable notes, “meals are served at dining stations.” West of La Junta, these stations included Albuquerque, Winslow, Williams, and Los Angeles. Continue reading