The back cover ad on this timetable is identical to the one on the April 1957 edition, which showed interior photos of CN coach, sleeping, dining, and lounge cars. At least the October 1957 back cover ad rearranged the photos, though it used the same ones along with the same text.

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Although the state-owned Canadian National called itself the People’s Railway in the 1920s, and its fares were a little lower than Canadian Pacific’s, the lower quality of its services sent a clear message to the people who rode it: you don’t deserve comfortable seats, interesting lounge cars, or dome cars that your economic superiors enjoyed when they rode Canadian Pacific. Even after CN acquired Milwaukee Super Domes, they were only open to sleeping car passengers, unlike CP trains that had one dome for sleeping car passengers and one for coach passengers (which wasn’t enough but better than nothing).