We’ve previously seen eight different timetables with this cover, including May 1964 and May 1965. Somehow I overlooked this January 1965 edition. Click image to download a 16.7-MB PDF of this 28-page. In the mid-1960s, Great Northern published three timetables … Continue reading
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In early 1971, U.S. railroads were getting ready to turn most of their passenger trains over to Amtrak, but Canadian National (which was then owned by the government) still had plenty of trains. Yet there were fewer than just two … Continue reading
The nine photos on the cover of this menu depict such sights as the S.S. Prince George cruising to Alaska, Niagara Falls, and Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park, all of which were accessible from CN trains (and steamships). At … Continue reading
This timetable is a respectable 52 pages long. Twelve of those pages, however, are full-page ads or cutaway drawings of sleeping car accommodations. The actual timetables fill just 25 pages, including equipment lists but excluding fares, the station index, and … Continue reading
This is the last of the Santa Fe timetables whose scans were contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader. This is the same reader who also contributed most of the Union Pacific timetables presented here in October and all of the … Continue reading
One of Santa Fe’s busiest passenger corridors was between Chicago and Kansas City. The 1953 timetable showed nine departures a day. By 1960, it was down to six. Click image to download a 29.0-MB PDF of this 48-page timetable. The … Continue reading
Sometime between yesterday’s 1957 timetable and this one, the Grand Canyon lost its Amarillo section. The left the San Francisco Chief as the only train to serve Santa Fe’s southern corridor. Click image to download a 12.1-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
While trains like the Scout and California Limited had disappeared from Santa Fe timetables in the late 1950s, the railway still had an amazing number of trains serving branch lines. A Texas city of about 55,000 people (in 1957) called … Continue reading
This timetable is for May 14 to October 28, and the big news during that time period was the introduction of the hi-level El Capitan on July 15. Although this is noted in the listings of equipment on page 7, … Continue reading
Just as the Scout disappeared from the January 1954, timetable, the California Limited is gone from this one. It’s actual last run was June 15, 1955, 9 days after this timetable went into effect. In its place was the San … Continue reading