The back cover of this timetable has another ad for Burlington Zephyrs. At least the headline isn’t “Diesel-Powered • Stainless Steel,” which as I suggested a few days ago, is redundant when referring to Zephyrs. Instead, the headline is “Luxurious … Continue reading
Riverside is about 11 miles west of Chicago Union Station and a third of the way to Aurora, where Burlington had its main shops and the terminus of Burlington’s commuter-rail line. Harlem Avenue is about a mile short of Riverside. … Continue reading
Though dated May, this timetable went into effect on April 29, exactly five weeks before the Great Northern replaced its heavyweight Oriental Limited with the streamlined Western Star, making it the first Northwest railroad to have not one but two … Continue reading
If Burlington hadn’t thought of it first, some other railroad, probably the Santa Fe, would have combined Diesel power with stainless steel to make a streamliner that was so different from all previous passenger trains that it woke up America. … Continue reading
After several years of minimal ads, this edition has a full-page ad on the back cover. The railroad had room for this because of the number of pages showing schedules for branch-line trains dropped from 7 to 5. Apparently some … Continue reading
Like the timetables presented here in the last couple of days, this one is practically ad-free. There are several small ads, the largest of which fills half a page and in total they probably would fill a little more than … Continue reading
I’ve previously noted that, for the sake of anniversaries, Burlington once considered its birth year to be 1850, the year the first train operated between Chicago and Aurora. But in 1949 the railroad changed that to 1849, the year Burlington’s … Continue reading
It seemed rather a slap in the face of its parent company for the Burlington to combine the North Coast Limited, Northern Pacific’s premiere train, with the Black Hawk, as it did in yesterday’s timetable. So it is no surprise … Continue reading
As I noted a few days ago, I was particularly interested in reviewing Burlington timetables from 1947 through the early 1960s to see if Burlington operated Great Northern’s secondary trains, the Oriental Limited until 1951 and the Western Star after, … Continue reading
In the four years since yesterday’s timetable, Burlington reduced the number of pages in its system timetables by four, which meant giving up the full-page ads on the inside and outside back covers. The other two pages were saved by … Continue reading
