With this edition, Burlington system timetables shrank from 36 to 32 pages. This was made possible by reducing the number of pages of condensed timetables from nine to seven, reducing the number of pages showing connections from two to one, … Continue reading
Issued about three months after yesterday’s timetable, this fixes one of the problems with the combined Coloradan/Nebraska Zephyr. In this timetable, the combined trains merge or separate in Omaha instead of Lincoln. This means the westbound Nebraska Zephyr could proceed … Continue reading
By the mid-1950s, Burlington was regularly issuing new timetables in May (which generally went into effect in the last days of April) and November (which generally went into effect in the last days of October), so it is odd to … Continue reading
One page of Burlington’s system timetables, such as the one shown here yesterday, was devoted to Colorado & Southern’s Denver-Texas trains. That page also showed six Denver-Pueblo trains, two of which were operated by Colorado & Southern and the other … Continue reading
I don’t see any attrition of scheduled trains on this timetable, so now is as good a time as any to bring up a subject I’ve mentioned before: Burlington’s sometimes weird way of numbering its trains. Most railroads used successive … Continue reading
Someone at Burlington realized that, as long as they were devoting two whole pages to just two trains, they could dispense with the “read down westbound, read up eastbound.” Instead, this timetable has shows read-down schedules for both the westbound … Continue reading
This timetable isn’t much different from the May 1956 condensed timetable shown here a few days ago. It is worth noting that, in the Denver and Twin Cities corridors, the condensed timetables list the trains in a different order from … Continue reading
Although the front cover of this timetable (scans for which were contributed by Bryan Howell) says it was for November 1956, the fine print on the inside front cover says that it went into effect on October 28. This is … Continue reading
A stately parade of Burlington streamliners left Chicago each day in 1956 for the Twin Cities. At 8:45 am, the Morning Zephyr departed Union Station with the goal of arriving in St. Paul in just 6-1/4 hours, for an average … Continue reading
This timetable is pretty similar to the one from May 1955. I count 16 named trains (if the Morning Zephyr and Afternoon Zephyr are counted as two different trains) and at least 16 unnamed trains. Click image to download a … Continue reading
