In addition to the ones already shown here, I am grateful to Ellery Goode for contributing more than 30 other timetables. I was going to present them in alphabetical order, but it makes more sense to group them by geography. … Continue reading
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Here’s another timetable contributed by Ellery Goode. All of the timetables provided by Mr. Goode are from 1954 through 1956, which were the peak years of streamlined trains in the United States. The railroads were still buying new passenger cars, … Continue reading
Unlike the Pennsylvania and several other railroads, the Santa Fe put the main cover of its timetables on the front instead of the back. The back cover of this timetable provides detailed information about what trains carried dining cars and … Continue reading
The Columbian, Milwaukee’s secondary Chicago-Seattle train, was discontinued in 1955, leaving just the Olympian Hiawatha in this corridor. Because the railroad had to get permission from each state to terminate the train, the Columbian disappeared in stages: first ending service … Continue reading
This timetable shows six trains a day between Chicago and the Twin Cities, but two of them — the Pioneer and the Columbian — are really the same train, so there were in fact just five. In addition to the … Continue reading
In addition to the color photos on the cover, this timetable makes some interesting if questionable uses of color. The inside front cover pictures two cars from the Prospector and one from the California Zephyr using black-and-white photos but with … Continue reading
Issued just six months after yesterday’s condensed timetable, not much changed between the two. As a complete timetable, this one provides more details that were omitted from yesterday’s, but not enough to answer any of the questions raised yesterday, such … Continue reading
Burlington’s condensed timetables of the 1950s had ten tables, led by the Chicago-Denver corridor in table 1. This table shows six zephyrs and three other trains: two going as far as Galesville (and continuing on to Kansas City), one as … Continue reading
Although the Dotsero Cutoff had yet to be built, the first schedule in this timetable showed how to take the Burlington to California via the Rio Grande and Western Pacific. The map accompanying the schedule shows Denver-Pueblo-Salt Lake City in … Continue reading
As of 1887, three different railroads — the Denver & Rio Grande; Denver, Texas & Gulf (later Colorado & Southern); and Santa Fe — had lines from Denver to Pueblo. They competed until 1918, when the federal government temporarily took … Continue reading