As in May 1951, Burlington replaced its Zephyr back cover ad with one encouraging people to “Go West” on the Burlington. This one has a different graphic showing hikers and horseback riders in Colorado, Glacier, or some other mountainous region. As in the 1951 illustration, the horseback riders are carefully ignoring the hikers, who are photographing the horses (and wishing they could afford them) as they pass them by.
Click image to download a 22.6-MB PDF of this 36-page timetable.
This is the first Burlington timetable that shows the Western Star taking the longer route through Great Falls. That added 117 miles and two hours to the trip, though GN made up for the hours elsewhere in the Star‘s schedule. In any case, this didn’t result in any changes at Burlington’s end as it still combined the Western Star with the Black Hawk between Chicago and St. Paul. Continue reading