“Our trains go to Florida, Florida and Florida” says an ad in this timetable, which was published three years after Atlantic Coast Line and Seaboard merged and four months before Amtrak would take over passenger trains to Florida. Indeed, the … Continue reading
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Like the Seaboard, Atlantic Coast Line still had a lot of Florida trains in the 1960s. At the top of the list was the New York-Naples/Miami Champion, ACL’s answer to Seaboard’s Silver Meteor. In addition, there was the New York-St. … Continue reading
In 1961, passenger service was declining on many railroads, but Seaboard still offered four trains a day between New York and Florida. The Silver Meteor went to Miami and St. Petersburg, the Silver Star and Palmland went primarily to Miami … Continue reading
The Chicago-Twin Cities corridor was served by a remarkable number of railroads. In addition to the St. Paul, North Western, and Burlington, the Wisconsin Central (later Soo Line), Minneapolis & St. Louis, Chicago Great Western, and Rock Island all attempted … Continue reading
In 1862, the first steam locomotive in Minnesota arrived in St. Paul, then a bustling frontier town of about 12,000 people. But the locomotive didn’t arrive by rail. Thanks to St. Anthony Falls, which were 16 to 20 feet high, … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a summer, 1937 Great Northern timetable. This one is from three years later, and there are only minor differences. The schedules of the Empire Builder appear to have been left completely unchanged. Minor trains have slightly different … Continue reading
The tops of most pages of this timetable have helpful admonitions, such as “Fire Destroys – Save the Forests”; travel advice, such as “Santa Cruz Big Trees – Easily Reached”; or outright ads, such as “Eight Trains Daily, Each Way, … Continue reading
Texas & Pacific, the cover of this timetable asserts, was the “short line” from “New Orleans to all points in northern Texas, California, Colorado & the West.” That seems to be true in terms of miles: the Southern Pacific route … Continue reading
Since 1885, the St. Paul Road had expanded in several states. It purchased the Milwaukee & Northern, giving it access to northern Wisconsin and Michigan’s upper peninsula. It built new branch lines in the Dakotas and Iowa. Most importantly, it … Continue reading
The Burlington Route made several expansions since the 1885 timetable presented here a month ago. Most importantly, it opened its own line from Chicago to the Twin Cities, ending its reliance on St. Paul Road tracks. In the West, it … Continue reading