The Burlington Route made several expansions since the 1885 timetable presented here a month ago. Most importantly, it opened its own line from Chicago to the Twin Cities, ending its reliance on St. Paul Road tracks. In the West, it had new lines to Cheyenne, Sheridan, and the Black Hills.

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The map in today’s timetable shows that it planned to continue building north from Deadwood into Montana as well as a line to the town of Buffalo, Wyoming. Neither of these lines were built, although something called the Wyoming Railway built a short-lived line to Buffalo. Instead, the Burlington would extend its lines from Denver and Sheridan to Billings.

As noted on the cover, most of the timetables are outbound from Chicago, Peoria, or St. Louis. Three panels show condensed timetables with both inbound and outbound trains to Chicago, but another brochure must have been issued with detailed timetables to these cities.

None of the trains are named. But this timetable does have one feature we’ve only previously seen (for timetables in this era) on a St. Paul Road timetable: an index of cities showing on which timetables they appear.