As a part of his map collection, David Rumsey included more than 50 brochures that had a railroad map on one side and timetables on the other. Most of these timetables were printed by Rand McNally and followed a standard … Continue reading
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These memo timetables show the schedules of the Kansas City Zephyr and American Royal Zephyr along with several unnamed trains that only went from Chicago to Galesburg. They also show connecting trains from Kansas City to St. Joseph — some … Continue reading
Burlington published these smaller-than-postcard sized timetables in the 1960s. The tables show that the railroad operated three trains a day over the 195 miles between Kansas City and Omaha. Some of those trains connected with other trains to Lincoln. Click … Continue reading
The Chesapeake & Ohio was not big on passenger trains. Most railroads were still optimistic about the passenger business in 1949, but this timetable is so sparse it could be from the late 1960s. That’s partly because it is for … Continue reading
At first glance, this Spokane, Portland & Seattle timetable looks nearly identical to the one for yesterday’s. But a close look reveals one key difference. Click image to download a 5.4-MB PDF of this timetable. In 1958, the Great Northern … Continue reading
Sometime in the late 1940s, SP&S adopted this timetable cover–green with its large red oval logo on top and two smaller logos of parent GN and NP railways below–and used it for about two decades. This one, dated October 1958, … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen eight different timetables with this cover, including May 1964 and May 1965. Somehow I overlooked this January 1965 edition. Click image to download a 16.7-MB PDF of this 28-page. In the mid-1960s, Great Northern published three timetables … Continue reading
In early 1971, U.S. railroads were getting ready to turn most of their passenger trains over to Amtrak, but Canadian National (which was then owned by the government) still had plenty of trains. Yet there were fewer than just two … Continue reading
The nine photos on the cover of this menu depict such sights as the S.S. Prince George cruising to Alaska, Niagara Falls, and Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park, all of which were accessible from CN trains (and steamships). At … Continue reading
This timetable is a respectable 52 pages long. Twelve of those pages, however, are full-page ads or cutaway drawings of sleeping car accommodations. The actual timetables fill just 25 pages, including equipment lists but excluding fares, the station index, and … Continue reading