This was quite possibly the first New Haven timetable featuring the McGinnis logo and color scheme, named for New Haven president Patrick McGinnis. Wikipedia says this was designed by McGinnis’ wife, but actually all she did was recommend Herbert Matter, … Continue reading
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In 1935, Boston & Maine introduced the Flying Yankee, a streamlined train that was a copy of the Burlington’s original Zephyr. The train was used for service between Boston and Bangor, Maine. This postcard is postmarked 1948, showing that B&M … Continue reading
Lehigh Valley competed with Lackawanna and Erie railroads for New York-Buffalo traffic across southern New York and northeast Pennsylvania. In 1958, the railroad offered three daily trains to Buffalo and three more trains that went only part of the distance … Continue reading
This would be one of the last Lackawanna timetables before the railroad merged with the Erie on October 17, 1960. The 16-page timetable is full of fluff, as the railroad really had only four trains a day between Hoboken and … Continue reading
New York Central’s timetable has shrunk four more pages since the World’s Fair edition. The “system map” on the cover doesn’t even bother to show Central’s secondary routes such as lines to Cairo and Peoria, Illinois; Grand Rapids and Mackinaw, … Continue reading
This timetable is just 24 pages long, but unlike the pre-war era, there wasn’t any need to have separate timetables for NYC’s various subsidiaries. I count just five trains a day from New York to Chicago and six from Chicago … Continue reading
Between 1938 and 1948, New York Central’s timetable grew from 32 to 52 pages, mainly because after 1942 it combined the Big Four, Boston & Albany, Michigan Central, and Pittsburgh & Lake Erie timetables into that of the parent road. … Continue reading
Despite declines in rail passenger travel after 1920, the New York Central in 1938 still operated a dozen trains a day each way between New York and Chicago, plus at least four a day between New York and St. Louis … Continue reading
In the three years since yesterday’s 1964 edition, the B&O/C&O timetable shrank from 28 to 12 pages. Most of the main trains are still there–including the Capital Limited, National Limited, and George Washington–but the Shenandoah was renamed the Diplomat. Operating … Continue reading
Chesapeake & Ohio took control of the Baltimore & Ohio in the early 1960s, and this timetable shows trains from both. It accompanies each schedule with abstract, subway-style maps of each route, which may have been easy to read but … Continue reading