We’ve previously seen an April 1958 Milwaukee Road timetable. This one, from five months later, is four pages shorter. This appears to be due more to a rearrangement of the contents than to any major changes in schedules.

Click image to download a 20.9-MB PDF of this 36-page timetable.

Four pages of less-important trains — Chicago-Minocqua, Chicago-Aberdeen, Milwaukee-Savanna, and a few others — have been consolidated to three, but all of the trains in the April timetable are still in the September one. A page of bus schedules in the April timetable is missing from this one. In addition, six pages of freight schedules have been cut to five and a full-page ad in April has been deleted.

While no trains were deleted since the April timetable, many schedules have changed slightly. The Olympian Hiawatha had taken 44-1/2 hours to get from Chicago to Seattle since at least 1953, but the time was upped to 44-5/6 hours in 1957 or early 1958 and increased again to 45-1/4 hours in September. As such it was losing the race to the Empire Builder, which took less than 44 hours in 1958, allowing travelers to leave Chicago later and arrive in Seattle sooner than on the Milwaukee.