Based on this timetable, a better name for Kansas City Southern might have been Shreveport Northern. Table 1 shows three trains a day between Shreveport and Kansas City. Table 2 shows two trains a day between Shreveport and New Orleans. … Continue reading
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During the 1931 season, the Empress of Britain made nine round trips between Southampton and Quebec. For its last westbound trip of the season, however, it headed straight to New York, where it was prepared for its first world cruise. … Continue reading
South America-Africa was the last cruise added to Canadian Pacific’s offerings, first taking place in 1928. Although the cruise visited some famous sites, including the pyramids and Mount Vesuvius, these were also visited by the world and Mediterranean cruises. Otherwise, … Continue reading
We’ve already seen a couple of the menus used on the 1926-27 world cruise, including the Valentine’s Day menu and Washington’s Birthday menu. Here are a few more. Click image to view and download a PDF of this menu from … Continue reading
For the winter of 1925-26, Canadian Pacific decided to begin its round-the-world tour in early December rather than mid-January. It may have been reluctant to do this in 1924 and 1925 because it feared some potential passengers would not want … Continue reading
After the Great War, Canadian Pacific Ocean Services’ first priority was to add to its empress fleet in Atlantic service. First, it renamed the Alsatian, a ship of its recently acquired Allan Line, the Empress of France. The largest of … Continue reading
When Donald Smith drove Canadian Pacific’s last spike in 1885, the city of Vancouver did not yet exist and Port Moody, the railroad’s original terminus, housed only about 250 people. All of British Columbia held about 50,000 residents, half of … Continue reading
In 1961, passenger service was declining on many railroads, but Seaboard still offered four trains a day between New York and Florida. The Silver Meteor went to Miami and St. Petersburg, the Silver Star and Palmland went primarily to Miami … Continue reading
This booklet is 12 pages longer than yesterday’s, and most of it is spent lauding the virtues of tropical beaches, warm ocean waters, and fabulous resorts. The booklet includes several photos of streamlined trains but doesn’t list any names of … Continue reading
The 19th-century timetables recently presented here revealed that passenger train speeds in the 1870s averaged about 18 miles per hour including stops. Two decades later, the New York Central was running a passenger train that averaged more than 50 miles … Continue reading