In its 1884 timetable, Southern Pacific included condensed schedules of the Houston and Texas Central. At the time, this was part of the Charles Morgan family of railroads in the Gulf Coast area, but in 1927 it would become part of the Southern Pacific. In this timetable, the H&TC calls itself the “trunk line of Texas,” a claim that would probably be disputed by the Texas & Pacific.

Click image to download a 13.1-MB PDF of this timetable, which is from the David Rumsey map collection.

Although this brochure has 20 panels on each side, only two panels are used to show the railroad’s actual schedules. It offered two express trains a day each way between Houston and St. Louis. It also had one train a day between Houston and Austin pletwo trains a day — one “1st class” and one mixed — between Houston and Waco. Several of the timetables mention a connection at Houston to New Orleans, but none provide any details.