After five years of the magazine-style timetable format, Missouri Pacific was becoming a bit repetitious. The inside front cover advertised generic Eagles trains. The first full-color article (the page before the centerfold map) was on Nebraska, with a note saying … Continue reading
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For November, Missouri Pacific made a small change to the front cover. Instead of red and black, the strip on the bottom of the cover is printed in yellow and black. This is a lot easier to read. Click image … Continue reading
Full page, four-color articles in this issue describe America’s wheat belt (which only slightly overlapped with Missouri Pacific routes), San Francisco, the Royal Gorge route to California, and outdoor music concerts in St. Louis. The inside front cover announces that … Continue reading
Missouri Pacific issued four timetables a year, so April 1947 was probably the second magazine-style timetable issued by the railroad and this was the third. While the April issue had full-page, four-color articles about Denver and St. Louis, this one … Continue reading
This edition of MP’s magazine-style timetables had color photographs accompanying full-page articles about Omaha, Dallas, Salt Lake City, and (on the back cover) Mexico. Another article includes recipes for oyster bisque, creole potatoes, and pumpkin pie “recommended” by Missouri Pacific … Continue reading
Over the next several months I am going to present around 150 timetables, including more than 50 from the Burlington Route, more than 30 from the Rock Island, and more than 50 from a variety of other railroads. But first … Continue reading
This timetable introduces two new trains: the Mid-Century Empire Builder, which used completely new equipment, and the Western Star, which was a new name for the equipment from the 1947 streamlined Empire Builder. It is hard to know which was … Continue reading
This timetable was published nine months after the January timetable shown here three months ago and has the same front cover. When writing the today’s post, I was embarrassed to discover that the cover of the PDF for that one … Continue reading
In 1956, the Alaska Railroad still had trains called the Aurora (now spelled AuRoRa to emphasize the railroad’s initials) and Midnight Sun, but they operated on very different schedules than in 1931. In the earlier year, both trains went from … Continue reading
This timetable shows Amtrak operated seven trains a day from New York City to Albany, four of which went on to Buffalo. One of those trains connected with a train to Toronto. The overnight New York-Buffalo train took 8 hours … Continue reading