In 1955, the Bangor & Aroostook operated two trains a day on its 236-mile mainline between Bangor and Van Buren in northern Maine. The premiere train was the afternoon Aroostook Flyer, which left Van Buren at 3:20 pm and arrived … Continue reading
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Boston travelers to Maine would take the Boston & Maine to Portland where they would meet another many-tentacled railroad, the Maine Central, which had lines to Rockland, Calais, Vanceboro, Harmony, Farmington, and St. Johnsbury, Vermont. A line to Bangor split … Continue reading
Like an octopus, Boston & Maine had tentacles radiating away from Boston to Portsmouth, Portland, Plymouth, White River Junction, Bellows Falls, Troy, Springfield, and Worcester. This timetable was issued just six months after Patrick McGinnis, who controlled the New Haven, … Continue reading
As I noted a few months ago, Southern Railway once tried to compete with ACL and SAL in the New York-Florida market but dropped out in about 1915. Instead, its main market was New York-New Orleans, but it also ran … Continue reading
Like its rival and eventual merger partner, Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard railroad had an impressive array of trains heading south from New York City (via PRR and RF&P) in 1956. At 9:50 am, the Silver Star departed for Florida … Continue reading
The Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac, which owned the 117 miles of track between Washington and Richmond, was co-owned by six different railroads that all used it as a bridge line between northern and southern cities. This timetable shows that in … Continue reading
Seaboard had its own line to Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach, but Florida East Coast was Atlantic Coast Line’s only access to those cities. FEC also was the only railroad serving St. Augustine, Daytona Beach, Cocoa, and Melbourne, … Continue reading
In addition to the ones already shown here, I am grateful to Ellery Goode for contributing more than 30 other timetables. I was going to present them in alphabetical order, but it makes more sense to group them by geography. … Continue reading
Here’s another timetable contributed by Ellery Goode. All of the timetables provided by Mr. Goode are from 1954 through 1956, which were the peak years of streamlined trains in the United States. The railroads were still buying new passenger cars, … Continue reading
Unlike the Pennsylvania and several other railroads, the Santa Fe put the main cover of its timetables on the front instead of the back. The back cover of this timetable provides detailed information about what trains carried dining cars and … Continue reading