Someone at Burlington realized that, as long as they were devoting two whole pages to just two trains, they could dispense with the “read down westbound, read up eastbound.” Instead, this timetable has shows read-down schedules for both the westbound and eastbound California Zephyr and Denver Zephyr. That does make them easier to read.

Click image to download a 20.7-MB PDF of this 36-page timetable.

A close look at the minor routes and branch lines reveals that at least three trains disappeared since the fall 1956 timetable. One of them, ironically, was a motor car connecting two of the Burlington’s namesake cities, Burlington and Quincy. Another was a motor car from Beardstown to Herrin, Illinois. A third disappeared route was between Lincoln and St. Joseph on Burlington’s Table Rock line; trains between the two cities on the Omaha line remained.