The Colorado & Southern was really two different railroads. First was the standard-gauge, north-south line from Wendover Wyoming to Fort Worth Texas. Second were several lines into Colorado mining districts, including Leadville and Cripple Creek, that were mostly narrow gauge. … Continue reading
Today we have one more look at the Twin Cities corridor before GN, NP, and CB&Q merged (which took place March 2 1970). It is about the same as the previous couple of timetables. Click image to download an 782-KB … Continue reading
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. Click image to download an 2.7-MB … Continue reading
Yesterday’s 16-page June 1968 timetable was quite a come down for a railroad that once published 44-page timetables. The shrinkage wasn’t over: Today’s edition is a folded brochure that is the equivalent of just six pages long, the same as … 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 … Continue reading
Three days ago, I posted the system timetable for November 1964. We’ve previously seen timetables for May 1965, November 1965, May 1966, November 1966, and June 1967. That brings us to today’s timetable. Click image to download an 10.7-MB PDF … 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 … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago I presented a November 1957 Colorado & Southern timetable. Not much has changed in the intervening seven-and-one-half years. As in 1957, all of the train schedules in this timetable fit on one-and-a-half of the eight … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
The Friday-only buffet-lounge car that was mentioned in yesterday’s November 1963 timetable as part of Chicago-Galesburg train 15 was no longer offered as of this May timetable. That’s because train 15 was no longer offered as of this May timetable. … Continue reading
