Seaboard Air Line 1954 Condensed Timetable

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Hamlet, North Carolina is a busy railroad town today, but it was a busy passenger-train town in the 1950s. Known as “the hub of the Seaboard,” Hamlet is where southbound Seaboard trains to Atlanta and Birmingham split from those to Miami and St. Petersburg. Hamlet is also where Seaboard trains from Norfolk and Richmond were merged to head to Florida or Atlanta (though the trains shared the same tracks from Norlina, 160 miles north of Hamlet). Hamlet was also where a train to Charleston and Savannah diverged from the mainline which went to Savannah via Columbia, SC.

Click image to download a 7.7-MB PDF of this 12-page timetable.

Seaboard had six named trains in 1954, all but one of which used Seaboard’s busy tracks between Norlina and Hamlet. It also had at least seven unnamed trains. Named trains included:
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More N&W Blotters

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When other railroads were beginning the conversion to Diesel, the Norfolk & Western became famous for building its own steam locomotives. The 4-8-4 J-class locomotive shown in the blotter below was built in 1941, so the blotter is probably from that year or soon after. Though the locomotive’s drivers were only 70 inches in diameter–small for a 4-8-4, which typically had 80-inch drivers–the locomotive was built with such precision that it could easily exceed 110 mph.

N&W made ten more of these locomotives, the last one–611–being completed in 1950. The railway used these streamlined engines, possibly the finest passenger steam locomotives ever built, on the Pocahontas and Powhatan Arrow.

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Norfolk & Western Blotters

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These are more blotters from the Dale Hastin collection. As usual, click the images to download PDFs of the blotters. Each of the PDFs are about 0.4 megabytes in size.

Norfolk & Western celebrated its centennial in 1938 with this blotter, which apparent shows a debate in the Virginia statehouse. The rail route from City Point to Petersburg mentioned on the blotter was actually the City Point Railroad, which was N&W’s earliest predecessor. The N&W itself wasn’t formed until 1881.

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Historyland in 1931

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This tabloid-sized ad for seven-day escorted tours of Virginia was published by the Chesapeake & Ohio in 1931. Jamestown, Williamsburg, Yorktown, Mt. Vernon, Monticello, and various historic monuments and sites in and around Washington, DC were all featured on the tour.

Click image to download a 19.3-MB PDF of this 24-page tabloid booklet.

Unfortunately, the booklet doesn’t specify what the “amazingly low price” was for the “complete all-expense tour.” It can’t have been very low, as it was first-class all the way: Pullman lower berths on overnight trains; accommodations at the Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, which at the time was the largest and fanciest in the city; outside staterooms in a boat trip from Washington to Norfolk; and so forth. The price probably depended on where tourists started, which might have been Chicago, Cincinnati, or other cities on the C&O and its associated lines.

PRR Blotters

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These blotters are from the Dale Hastin collection. As usual, click the images to download PDFs of the blotters, which are 300 to 600 KB in size.

Listing agents in Jacksonville, Atlanta, and Washington, the first blotter advertises trains to travelers to and from Florida and the south. Judging from the image, I’d say it dates from the 1920s.

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PRR July, 1964 Timetable

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Click image to download a 26.2-MB PDF of this 40-page timetable.

Pennsylvania 1964 Timetable

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Pennsy’s Washington-New York service was down from 20 trains a day in 1950 to eleven in 1964; Chicago-New York was down to five from eight in 1950; the Chicago-Washington Liberty Limited was gone and instead two of the Chicago-New York trains split at Harrisburg and went to Washington. Chicago-Florida service was down to one from two trains, with an additional train going as far as Louisville.

Click image to download a 24.7-MB PDF of this 40-page timetable.

Another thing missing from this timetable is the Grif Teller painting on the cover. Teller had done his last annual calendar painting for the Pennsylvania in 1959. Instead, this cover used a 1961 artist’s conception of the Unisphere at the New York World’s Fair, built by and prominently featuring the logo of U.S. Steel, an important customer of the railroad.
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1964 Broadway Limited Breakfast Menu

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I’ve previously mentioned how some eastern railroads would sell advertising space in their dining car menus. Pennsylvania’s 1962 General menu didn’t have any ads, but this 1964 Broadway Limited menu has several subtle ads on the back.

Click image to download a 1.0-MB PDF of this menu.

The first column on the back has “interesting facts” that turn out to be ads for such things as Coca-Cola, Canada Dry, and Clamato juice. The second column suggests “where to dine” in New York and Philadelphia. But there are so many restaurants in these two cities that the three mentioned here must have paid to be listed. This is confirmed by a discrete “(adv.)” at the end of each interesting fact and restaurant listing. The ads aren’t helped by the fact that the menu cover is printed in red-on-orange, making them hard to read.

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PRR’s East-West Fleet

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This 1953 brochure briefly describes the amenities found on Pennsylvania’s “frequent, convenient, dependable trains.” The brochure specifically lists seven New York-Chicago trains, four New York/Washington-St. Louis trains, and one each between Washington & Chicago, New York/Washington & Detroit, New York & Pittsburgh, New York/Washington & Indianapolis, New York & Cincinnati, New York/Washington & Cleveland, and Pittsburgh & Chicago.

Click image to download a 2.4-MB PDF of this brochure.
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Pennsylvania 1950 Timetable

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PRR’s 1950 timetable had a few more pages, but a few fewer trains, than the 1946 edition. New York-Washington service declined from 21 to 20 trains and New York-Chicago dropped from eleven to eight daily trains. No doubt there were modest cuts elsewhere in the system.

Click image to download a 37.0-MB PDF of this 56-page timetable.

Like the Central’s post-war timetables, PRR now advertised through sleeping cars to California on the Overland, Los Angeles Limited, Chief, Golden State, and California zephyr. The timetable also advertises trains with names like Penn Texas and Texas Eagle that supposedly ran through from New York to Dallas, San Antonio, and other Texas cities, though a close look reveals that only the sleeping cars went through St. Louis. However, the Southland and South Wind did go through from Chicago to Jacksonville and other Florida points.

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