Rock Island April 1963 Timetable

This 20-page timetable not only has a two-page centerfold map, it has two full-page ads. It fit the ads in by cutting the list of ticket agents from two pages to one and cutting the list of rail fares from three pages to two. It also cut the schedules for the Golden State route from two pages to one, making room for a page showing connections with eastern train at Chicago.

Click image to download an 12.4-MB PDF of this 20-page timetable.

As I noted yesterday, the mixed trains to Sioux Falls are absent from this timetable. Also gone was the Kansas City Rocket. There were still unnamed trains #15 & 16 between Minneapolis and Kansas City, which connected with a train to/from Wichita, but no longer connected with trains to/from Fort Worth.

In other changes, an hour had been added to the westbound Rocky Mountain Rocket, while eastbound was unchanged. Southern Pacific added a half hour to the times for its portion of both the westbound and eastbound Golden State, while Rock Island times were the same. However, Rock Island added almost an hour to its portion of eastbound train #40, the Los Angeles-Chicago train once known as the Imperial.


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Rock Island April 1963 Timetable — 1 Comment

  1. Looks like westbound the Colorado Rocket and Golden State run combined to Rock Island and split off there. Eastbound the Golden State appears to be combined with the train from Peoria at Bureau.

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