This timetable advertises a 32-page booklet about Mexico sold by SP for 25 cents (about $5 today), calling it “an effective example of the principles of fine book-making applied to travel literature.” I’ll present this booklet here tomorrow. Click image … Continue reading
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We’ve already seen an SP timetable dated August, 1935, but that one was 16 pages long. This one is 48 pages and includes lots of local and branchline trains that aren’t listed on the other one. The shorter one also … Continue reading
Comparing this timetable to the 1929 edition presented a few days ago shows the toll the Depression took on passenger service. Where that timetable had two trains a day between New Orleans and Los Angeles, three a day between Chicago … Continue reading
The cover of this timetable is in poor condition, with more than half of it missing, but the rest is very readable. The train names are more familiar than those on yesterday’s timetable, with Sunset Limited/Argonaut on the Sunset route, … Continue reading
The Streamliner Memories reader who contributed scans for most of the Union Pacific timetables presented in the last few weeks also provided scans for four dozen Southern Pacific timetables and fare schedules that I’ll be presenting over the next two … Continue reading
In late 1960, Union Pacific changed the cover of its timetables from one that had a small map of its system to the fully detailed map of its lines as shown below. This map was used in place of the … Continue reading
As noted yesterday, Union Pacific combined the Challenger with the City of Los Angeles in the off-peak seasons and ran them as separate trains in the peak seasons (including summers and the Christmas holidays). Although UP originally assigned dome-coaches and … Continue reading
“Beginning June 1st,” says the back cover of this timetable (which was contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader), “the Challenger will again operate as an ALL COACH Streamliner on its regular convenient summer schedule.” This refers to the fact that … Continue reading
This timetable (which was contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader) is the first I have seen to include the City of Las Vegas. That train began operating in December, 1956, using the General Motors Aerotrain. UP continued to use that … Continue reading
The Gold Coast was gone in 1955. To keep up the appearance of three trains per day between Chicago and Los Angeles, this timetable lists the San Francisco Overland combined with the City of St. Louis as a possible route. … Continue reading