The Kansas City-Oklahoma Firefly, Frisco’s first streamliner, bit the dust in 1960. While the Meteor was still on the timetable in 1964, it no longer went as far as Lawton, Oklahoma, terminating instead at Oklahoma City. The Meteor had also … Continue reading
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From 1954 through 1965, Frisco timetables were graced with this beautiful painting of what is probably the Meteor pulled by E8 locomotives (or possibly E7s minus the stainless steel fluting). The idyllic scene on the cover disguises the contractions in … Continue reading
The front cover of this timetable features the Meteor and Texas Special, but Frisco had plenty of other named trains in 1921. Most of the names were unimaginative, including the St. Louis-Galveston Texas Limited, Kansas City-Wichita Kansas Limited, St. Louis-Oklahoma … Continue reading
At one time, the Louisville & Nashville had five trains on the “Dixie Route” to Florida, but by 1965 it was down to just one: the South Wind, which left Chicago at 8:35 am and arrived in St. Petersburg the … Continue reading
In 1952, the Southern had five trains between Washington and New Orleans, most of which continued to New York over the Pennsylvania. The premiere train was the streamlined Crescent, which was all Pullman north of Atlanta and added coaches only … Continue reading
Hamlet, North Carolina is a busy railroad town today, but it was a busy passenger-train town in the 1950s. Known as “the hub of the Seaboard,” Hamlet is where southbound Seaboard trains to Atlanta and Birmingham split from those to … Continue reading
Except for the date on the cover, this seems to be page-by-page identical to yesterday’s April, 1964 timetable. This one is from my own collection and I am including it for There are a lot other movements with which one … Continue reading
Pennsy’s Washington-New York service was down from 20 trains a day in 1950 to eleven in 1964; Chicago-New York was down to five from eight in 1950; the Chicago-Washington Liberty Limited was gone and instead two of the Chicago-New York … Continue reading
PRR’s 1950 timetable had a few more pages, but a few fewer trains, than the 1946 edition. New York-Washington service declined from 21 to 20 trains and New York-Chicago dropped from eleven to eight daily trains. No doubt there were … Continue reading
The Pennsylvania could match the New York Central’s trains to just about every major city in the East and Midwest except Albany, with the added bonus that Pennsylvania served Baltimore, Washington, and Philadelphia. In addition to twenty-one trains a day … Continue reading