Burlington was a very different railroad in 1885 from the one I am familiar with in the mid-20th century. Burlington’s lines to South Dakota, Wyoming, Texas, Kentucky, and even Minnesota were all in the future. Click image to download a … Continue reading
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Lehigh Valley carried coal from Pennsylvania to Buffalo on the west and Jersey City on the east. This timetable shows that it operated 30 passenger trains in 1885. These are numbered 0 to 28 westbound and 1 to 29 eastbound. … Continue reading
The Atlantic Coast Line began in 1871 as a joint advertising name for two small railroads that wanted to work together. Over time, more railroads were added to the system, but it wasn’t until the late 1890s that they were … Continue reading
The Alton’s 1885 timetable was the same format as yesterday’s 1884 timetable, with the same information on most of the same panels. Instead of filling an entire page, the map covers only a little more than two of the 14 … Continue reading
The Chicago & Alton had passenger trains between Chicago & St. Louis, St. Louis & Kansas City; and Chicago & Kansas City. In 1884, it offered two trains a day on each route, and this timetable provided schedules in both … Continue reading
Today’s timetable is peculiar in several ways. Like several we have seen before, it mainly has westbound schedules, probably because its goal is to entice people to emigrate west. (It does have one very brief eastbound schedule.) Also like several … Continue reading
The Ohio & Mississippi Railway connected Cincinnati with St. Louis. Ten years after this timetable was issued, it was taken over by the Baltimore & Ohio. Click image to download a 12.4-MB PDF of this timetable, which is from the … Continue reading
In 1877, the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad gained control of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. Though the two weren’t formally merged until 1914, the Lake Shore was New York Central’s main connection between Buffalo and … Continue reading
The Great Western was one of the oldest railroads in Canada, having begun operating at least a dozen years before the nation of Canada was even created. Its main line was from Niagara Falls to Windsor, Ontario, across the Detroit … Continue reading
Congress gave Union Pacific and Central Pacific loans and land grants to build the first transcontinental railroad. In contrast, Northern Pacific received a much larger land grant but no cash grants or loans. This made construction more difficult, especially since … Continue reading