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 percent higher than they were in 1940, which contributes to my suspicion that they were deleted from the previous timetable because Burlington was uncertain about a proposed rate increase.

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Of the two pages of ads, the inside back cover once again promises that Burlington will be able to meet wartime demand “without any impairment of the high quality service to which its patrons are accustomed.” One of those services is advertised on the back cover, namely taking people on vacations in the West.

“Two weeks is ample time” for such vacations, the ad promises; “all summer not too long.” The notion that “we can have our war and still have fun” would soon be swept away by the magnitude of the largest war in history, making dreams of a summer-long vacation seem unpatriotic.