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M-K-T 1982 Calendar

Posted on February 20, 2021 by Train LoverJanuary 2, 2021

This calendar, whose scans were contributed by the same Streamliner Memories reader who provided the Frisco calendars last July, measures about 8-1/4″ by 10-3/4″, perhaps slightly cut down from 8-1/2″ by 11″ stock. The choice of green ink on eye-searing electric yellow paper makes it somewhat hard to read.

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More QA&P Blotters

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Train LoverJanuary 2, 2021

Here are four more comic blotters from the Quanah, Acme and Pacific whose scans were donated by a Streamliner Memories reader. Two of them emphasize that the QA&P was completely Dieselized by 1954, ahead of many class I railroads. Of course, the QA&P probably didn’t need many Diesels to keep it running.

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There is some historic irony to the QA&P’s being a bridge between the Frisco and Santa Fe, as both were originally part of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad. When that road went bankrupt in the late 1870s, the Santa Fe took over the western part while the eastern part became the Frisco. Continue reading →

Quanah, Acme & Pacific Blotters

Posted on February 18, 2021 by Train LoverJanuary 2, 2021

The railroad that became the Quanah, Acme & Pacific once had ambitions to spread across the width of Texas, but only made it about 117 miles. One early investor was Harry Koch, a newspaper publisher and grandfather of today’s Koch brothers, who was just as libertarian then as they are today. But in 1911, the railroad was taken over by the St. Louis-San Francisco, which is why I’ve listed this as Frisco memorabilia even though the Frisco operated the QA&P as an independent railroad.

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QA&P survived until Frisco’s merger with BN in 1981 by acting as a bridge road connecting the Frisco’s line from St. Louis with Santa Fe’s line to California. The role it played as “the transcontinental cutoff” is emphasized on these advertising blotters. Continue reading →

Frisco 1969 and 1970 Calendars

Posted on February 17, 2021 by Train LoverJanuary 2, 2021

Here are two more Frisco calendars from the Karl Poythress collection. Both show one truck from a freight car with the slogan, “When your freight goes Frisco, your freight goes!”

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As slogans go, that one isn’t as great as “Freight goes great when it goes Great Northern.” In fact, except for the sort-of rhyme between “Frisco” and “goes,” it’s a pretty meaningless slogan. After all, it doesn’t specify where your freight is going. Maybe it’s not even going where you want it to. Continue reading →

Frisco 1966 and 1968 Calendars

Posted on February 16, 2021 by Train LoverJanuary 2, 2021

For the 1966 and 1968 calendars, General Electric U25B locomotives replaced the F3 locomotives that appeared on the 1964 calendar. Frisco had also painted its freight locomotives in a red-and-white scheme reminiscent of its no-longer-operating red-and-silver passenger streamliners. This was much cheerier than the black-and-yellow scheme used on the F3s and other early Diesels.

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Frisco acquired its first U25B locomotives in 1961, although the locomotive pictured on the calendar was acquired in 1963. The first seven that it received from General Electric — numbers 801 through 807 — had high hoods on the short as well as long end. Starting with 808, the locomotive leading the train in the calendar image, the U25Bs had low short hoods, offering engine crews much better visibility. Continue reading →

Frisco 1955 and 1964 Calendars

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Train LoverJanuary 2, 2021

These might be called desk calendars: slightly bigger than 7″x9″, they are too big to be pocket calendars and too small to be wall calendars. The 1955 edition has a resplendent image of a red-and-silver passenger train — either the Meteor or the Texas Special — in front of a freight train against a backdrop that is likely supposed to be somewhere in Oklahoma.

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The Texas Special was jointly run by the Frisco and M-K-T railroads. The Frisco dropped its portion of the train in 1959 while Katy kept running its portion through 1964. The Frisco kept the Meteor on its timetable until September 15, 1965, but by 1964 it was no longer important enough for the railroad to feature it on its calendar. Continue reading →

Amtrak June 1972 Timetable

Posted on February 14, 2021 by Train LoverJanuary 2, 2021

Most of Amtrak’s overnight routes see just one train a day in each direction, and when I’ve tried to figure out how to make Amtrak work better I’ve sometimes thought they should run two trains a day on some of these routes. Two trains a day would allow every town on the route to have daytime service. Doubling frequencies might also have a synergistic effect, leading ridership to increase by more than double if people know they have more options.

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I recently learned that Amtrak actually tried this on Santa Fe’s Chicago-Los Angeles route in 1972. As recently as 1968, Santa Fe ran three trains on this route: the Super Chief/El Capitan (two trains operated on identical timetables), Chief, and Grand Canyon. Someone at Amtrak got the idea that it should try running two a day: the Super Chief/El Capitan, which left Chicago in the evening, and the Chief, which left Chicago in the morning. Continue reading →

Wonderful Trains

Posted on February 13, 2021 by Train LoverApril 3, 2021

This beautiful little booklet was written in 1950 to inform Japanese children about trains in America. I haven’t previously posted it because I can’t read Japanese, but fortunately Streamliner Memories reader Akira Urushibata graciously translated it for us. The booklet’s title is Subarashii Kisha or Wonderful Trains.

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“In this picture book, only the trains that are currently in use in America have been specially collected,” says the cover. “As you already know, the country in which railroads are most developed is America.” Continue reading →

The Anachronism

Posted on February 12, 2021 by Train LoverJanuary 31, 2023

It’s 1955, and Canadian Pacific has replaced its heavyweight, steam-powered transcontinental passenger trains with the streamlined Canadian and Dominion led by the newest Diesel locomotives. Yet passengers on the Empress of France wouldn’t know it, being given this menu showing the steam-powered Mountaineer on the cover. The back cover proudly states that the train is air conditioned, which by 1955 was considered a given.

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The back also says that the cover was “printed in England 1951,” so the Empress staff must have had some extra menu stock left over from four years before. Somehow I don’t think that Ian Warren, the railway’s passenger manager at the time, would have approved. Continue reading →

Empress of France Menus

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Train LoverJanuary 31, 2023

We’ve seen both of these menu covers before, but they came with the menu I am showing tomorrow, which we haven’t seen. These two menus were used for dinner on the Empress of France on August 13 and 14, 1955.

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First is the Royal York Hotel on a menu advertised as the “Gala Night.” The menu includes emince of beef, which I understand to mean leftover scraps, not what I’d expect in a first-class dining room. But it also has Brome Lake duckling, Brome Lake being a lake (and village) in Quebec. A third entrée is lamb. Continue reading →