Canadian National’s timetables dramatically shrunk in 1961. While the October 1960 timetable was still 84 pages, today’s is just 52 pages. In-between, the April 1961 timetable was 68 pages. Click image to download a 37.3-MB PDF of this 52-page timetable. … Continue reading
The back cover of this timetable advertises all-inclusive rates during the off-season on CN’s transcontinental trains. These rates included transportation, meals, and gratuities. A comparison of rates with those from yesterday’s winter 1958 timetable show that some of them were … Continue reading
The back cover ad on this timetable is identical to the one on the April 1957 edition, which showed interior photos of CN coach, sleeping, dining, and lounge cars. At least the October 1957 back cover ad rearranged the photos, … Continue reading
Although the Super Continental was CN’s premiere train, a case can be made that the Ocean Limited actually held this title as it was CN’s only all-sleeping car train. The train took about 36 hours between Montreal and Halifax and … Continue reading
In 1956, CN reduced the size its timetables from 88 to 84 pages, a size it would maintain through the rest of the 1950s. A number of branchline trains were apparently dropped: I mentioned two days ago that the 1954 … Continue reading
Canadian National’s streamlined Super Continental was inaugurated on April 24, 1955, which just happened to be the day this timetable went into effect. The back cover ad brags that the train was “Dieselized all the way” and that it provided … Continue reading
Like the 1949 timetable shown here a few days ago, this one has 88 pages. CN would continue to publish 88-page timetables for about another year. Click image to download a 57.1-MB PDF of this 88-page timetable. The back cover … Continue reading
At 88 pages, this is one of the longest timetables I’ve ever seen, matched only by other Canadian National timetables of the 1940s and early 1950s. This might be expected as Canadian National bragged that it was North America’s largest … Continue reading
The North Shore may have been a “super interurban,” but super did not translate to being profitable. As historian George Hilton noted, “Few industries have arisen so rapidly or declined so quickly” as interurban rail, “and no industry of its … Continue reading
The Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee was an electric interurban railroad connecting its namesake cities with a line along the west shore of Lake Michigan. The “North Shore” name contrasted with the Chicago, South Shore and South Bend, as both … Continue reading
