This timetable is somewhat similar to the one from 1872, with a map on one side and a large timetable on the other surrounded by woodcuts of scenes along the route of the first transcontinental railway along with some text. … Continue reading
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One of the railroads the Boston & Maine connected with in Portland was the Portland & Ogdensburg, which headed west to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The aim of the railroad’s builders was to reach Ogdensburg, New York, thus … Continue reading
This timetable had 18 panels per side, but just one of them is sufficient to show Boston & Maine’s numerous passenger trains between Boston and Portland. The railroad offered four trains in each direction, plus a fifth train went part … Continue reading
Like most railroads with “Pacific” in their name, the goal of the Texas & Pacific was to build to the Pacific Ocean, in this case, San Diego. By the time this time table was issued, it had only built from … Continue reading
The St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway was, like the International & Great Northern, an independent railroad when this timetable was published but would be taken over by Jay Gould in 1883 and eventually became part of the Missouri … Continue reading
The International & Great Northern Railroad went from the east Texas town of Longview (where it met the Texas & Pacific) to Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and Laredo. At the time this map was issued in 1878, the extension to … Continue reading
As a part of his map collection, David Rumsey included more than 50 brochures that had a railroad map on one side and timetables on the other. Most of these timetables were printed by Rand McNally and followed a standard … Continue reading
These memo timetables show the schedules of the Kansas City Zephyr and American Royal Zephyr along with several unnamed trains that only went from Chicago to Galesburg. They also show connecting trains from Kansas City to St. Joseph — some … Continue reading
Burlington published these smaller-than-postcard sized timetables in the 1960s. The tables show that the railroad operated three trains a day over the 195 miles between Kansas City and Omaha. Some of those trains connected with other trains to Lincoln. Click … Continue reading
The Chesapeake & Ohio was not big on passenger trains. Most railroads were still optimistic about the passenger business in 1949, but this timetable is so sparse it could be from the late 1960s. That’s partly because it is for … Continue reading