As I suggested yesterday, the idea of taking long summer vacations during wartime quickly disappeared in 1942. Instead, the full-page ads on the inside and outside back covers of this timetable both focus on the war effort. Click image to … Continue reading
This timetable restores the two pages of rail fares that were omitted from yesterday’s. Since the page count is still 40, this meant reducing the number of pages dedicated to ads to just two. The rail fares are about 10 … Continue reading
Going into effect exactly four weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, this timetable has four fewer pages than yesterday’s from 1940. This was accomplished by reducing the number of ad pages by two and eliminating two pages of rail … Continue reading
Burlington included five full-page ads and one page with two half-page ads in this timetable. This is similar to 1939 and 1940 timetables. Among the full-page ads in this one are ones for the Exposition Flyer and a back-cover ad … Continue reading
In a profound example of poor timing, just a few weeks after the stock market crash that heralded the beginning of the Great Depression, Burlington inaugurated a new Chicago-Denver train called the Aristocrat. To equip the train, along with another … Continue reading
This curiously titled booklet “is the first of a series to be issued jointly by the Burlington, Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railways,” says the introduction, “giving authoritative information about the Pacific Northwest.” We’ve previously seen several others in the … Continue reading
This timetable is quite a contrast from the one from 1939 shown here a few days ago. While that one had five full-page ads and two half-page ads, this one has no ads larger than a few tiny spots leftover … Continue reading
The back of this menu reproduces James Whitcomb Riley‘s poem, When the Frost Is on the Punkin, in full. Riley (1849-1916), of course, was the Hoosier poet who wrote in a central Indiana dialect. In 1941, the New York Central … Continue reading
Yesterday’s 1939 timetable had a four-page insert of large ads, plus full-page ads on the inside and outside back covers. We’ve previously seen a 1940 timetable with the same arrangement. Yet today’s 1944 timetable has no large ads, and even … Continue reading
The Burlington was quite the hopping railroad in 1939. The back cover of this timetable advertises the “fast, new” Exposition Flyer, which was operated “on a schedule planned to give a panorama of western scenery by daylight.” Inside the covers … Continue reading
