The Ohio & Mississippi Railway connected Cincinnati with St. Louis. Ten years after this timetable was issued, it was taken over by the Baltimore & Ohio. Click image to download a 12.4-MB PDF of this timetable, which is from the … Continue reading
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In 1877, the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad gained control of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway. Though the two weren’t formally merged until 1914, the Lake Shore was New York Central’s main connection between Buffalo and … Continue reading
The Great Western was one of the oldest railroads in Canada, having begun operating at least a dozen years before the nation of Canada was even created. Its main line was from Niagara Falls to Windsor, Ontario, across the Detroit … Continue reading
Congress gave Union Pacific and Central Pacific loans and land grants to build the first transcontinental railroad. In contrast, Northern Pacific received a much larger land grant but no cash grants or loans. This made construction more difficult, especially since … Continue reading
This timetable is somewhat similar to the one from 1872, with a map on one side and a large timetable on the other surrounded by woodcuts of scenes along the route of the first transcontinental railway along with some text. … Continue reading
One of the railroads the Boston & Maine connected with in Portland was the Portland & Ogdensburg, which headed west to the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The aim of the railroad’s builders was to reach Ogdensburg, New York, thus … Continue reading
This timetable had 18 panels per side, but just one of them is sufficient to show Boston & Maine’s numerous passenger trains between Boston and Portland. The railroad offered four trains in each direction, plus a fifth train went part … Continue reading
Like most railroads with “Pacific” in their name, the goal of the Texas & Pacific was to build to the Pacific Ocean, in this case, San Diego. By the time this time table was issued, it had only built from … Continue reading
The St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway was, like the International & Great Northern, an independent railroad when this timetable was published but would be taken over by Jay Gould in 1883 and eventually became part of the Missouri … Continue reading
The International & Great Northern Railroad went from the east Texas town of Longview (where it met the Texas & Pacific) to Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and Laredo. At the time this map was issued in 1878, the extension to … Continue reading