This timetable, scans for which were contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader, went into effect just 40 days after New York Central inaugurated the Henry Dreyfus-designed streamlined 20th Century Limited. Wikipedia says this “was probably the most famous American passenger train” (not that Wikipedia is 100 percent reliable about such things).
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The bullet-nosed locomotive is pictured on the cover (actually the back cover) and also advertised, with a somewhat exaggerated illustration of the locomotive, on the other cover (technically the front cover) of this timetable. This ad states that the train went 960 miles in 960 minutes. New York to Chicago over the New York Central was actually 961 miles, but that didn’t have quite the ring to it. Continue reading