Issued six months after yesterday’s timetable, this one has all of the trains that were also on yesterday’s. One thing I didn’t note yesterday was that the California Zephyr had become an extra-fare train.

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“The following California Zephyr charges will be assessed,” says the October 1968 timetable: $20 first-class and $10 coach for passengers between Burlington and Western Pacific stations and $10 first-class and $5 coach for passengers between Burlington and Rio Grande stations. There were zero added charges for passengers riding between one Burlington station and another. Today’s timetable reduced the WP charges to $15 first class and $5 coach and the Rio Grande charges to $7.50 first class and $2.50 coach. Continue reading →

This timetable is only 16 pages long, cut from 20 in yesterday’s October 1967 timetable. Today’s timetable saved two pages by cutting the condensed schedules for all but the transcons (CZ, EB, NCL, WS, and Mainstreeter). Another page was saved by eliminating the list of connecting trains in Chicago and other cities. Finally, the 1967 timetable had a back cover ad that was cut from this one.

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The biggest loss I see is the Kansas City Zephyr, the daytime counterpart to the overnight American Royal Zephyr. However, a train with the same numbers, 35 & 36, continued to operate as the Quincy Local between Chicago and Quincy. It carried a dinette, while the American Royal, which once carried sleepers and a diner-lounge, was reduced to just coaches. Continue reading →

Although this is called a Chicago-Denver timetable, only three of the six trains shown actually went to Denver: the Denver Zephyr, the California Zephyr, and mail train 7 & 8. Also shown were the Nebraska Zephyr and Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr to Lincoln and the Kansas City Zephyr, which went to Kansas City but only the portion to Galesburg is shown.

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The timetable includes two different schedules for the Denver Zephyr, one that was in effect for June through August and the other for September through May. The trains left Denver and Chicago at the same time under both schedules, but the summer trains ended in Chicago and Denver about 10 minutes behind the non-summer trains. As one Streamliner Memories reader suggested when I posted the June 1967 system timetable, this may have been to allow the train to stop twice — once for coaches, once for sleepers — in some cities when the train was too long to fit in station platforms.

Remember how the May 1963 timetable showed the westbound California Zephyr as a connection to a train to Hannibal, but the November 1963 timetable did not? That connection is back in this timetable (scans for which were generously provided by Bryan Howell). This is insignificant stuff, but that’s one of the few changes I can find from the May 1964 edition.

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Unlike the May 1964 timetable, this one didn’t delete any branchline mixed trains. In fact, it added more than a dozen routes where such service might be offered — “consult agent for details.” These included Tecumseh-Auburn, Benedict-McCool Jct., and Hildreth-Beatrice. I’ve never heard of most of these towns and I have no idea why Burlington was offering some sort of passenger service on these routes. Continue reading →