Canadian Pacific timetables shrank from 36 to 28 pages in 1968 and remained that size at least through 1970. But today’s 1972 timetable was reduced to a mere 12 pages.

Click image to download a 7.8-MB PDF of this 12-page timetable, scans for which were provided by Hans Krieger.

Seven of these pages were filled with 13 schedules for about 17 different daily trains. Also included were an Algoma Central schedule, some bus and steamship schedules. Steamship service between Victoria-Port Angeles and Victoria-Seattle was listed as “suspended for winter.”

Canadian Pacific describes the ugly logo shown on this cover as the “multimark,” which was supposed to signify “corporate stability and world-wide capabilities.” In fact, this logo, which CP used from 1968 to 1986, oversaw the decline of “the world’s greatest transportation system” as its ocean liners ended service in the 1970s, its passenger trains were taken over by VIA in 1978, and Canadian Pacific Airlines ceased to operate in 1987. This left just rail freight and hotels, which were spun off in 2007.