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The cover shown below (which is the back cover) indicates that CN thinks it finally got all of the bugs out of its Turbo trains, just in time for the company to go out of the passenger business. As the … Continue reading
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The cover illustration shows happy people of all ages walking through a train station in anticipation of comfortable rides aboard a CN train. Note that dress was more casual than the business suits that characterized photos from the 1960s. There’s … Continue reading
I’ve mentioned before that CN coaches were not as comfortable as on Canadian Pacific’s Canadian, which had Sleepy Hollow seats with full leg rests. As shown on the cover of this timetable, CN attempted to belatedly remedy this by adding … Continue reading
Yesterday’s timetable never mentioned or pictured the Sceneramic Lounge dome cars. However, one is pictured on the cover of today’s timetable from a year later, so they were still in use in 1972 and 1973. Click image to download a … Continue reading
I’ve put up with timetables that put their main cover on the back. I’ve accepted that it could make sense for timetables to number each panel rather than each page. But this timetable commits a cardinal sin that is unforgivable: … Continue reading
The photo used on the cover of this timetable is even worse than the one on the April 1966 edition. Is there supposed to be a train in the picture? It could just as easily be an airport runway or … Continue reading
We’ve already seen CN’s April 1969 timetable, which shows that CN did not split its Super Continental into two trains during the summer of 1969 as it had in 1967 and 1968. Instead, it ran a single train that reached … Continue reading
Yesterday’s timetable briefly mentioned that “CN Turbos” were “coming in ’68 to speed you between Toronto and Montreal in record-breaking time.” The United Aircraft TurboTrains were based on a Chesapeake & Ohio design that in turn was based on the … Continue reading
In the summer of 1968, CN once again split the Super Continental into two trains, one between Montreal and Vancouver and the other between Toronto and Vancouver. Both trains carried two coaches, a coach-lounge, eight sleepers, a diner, and a … Continue reading
Despite the surge in ridership that took place during Expo ’67, which ended the day this timetable went into effect, CN cut numerous trains, allowing it to reduce the size of this timetable from 68 pages to 52. The previous … Continue reading