This was the first timetable to feature the streamlined Challenger. The heavyweight train of that name was discontinued in 1947 and replaced by the Gold Coast. The Gold Coast was still on this timetable, but would disappear by the end … Continue reading
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The appears to be the first Union Pacific timetable to have two streamliners on each cover picture. Yesterday’s timetable, which was issued three months before this one, had a streamliner and a steam-powered train that was presumably a heavyweight. That … Continue reading
This timetable was issued just four months after the previous one shown here, so there are only a few changes. The biggest may be that the schedule for the Gold Coast between Chicago and San Francisco was tightened up by … Continue reading
This timetable came out just two months after the previous one, so there aren’t going to be a lot of changes in it. However, I want to point out the density of passenger trains between two modest-sized cities: Ogden (which … Continue reading
As I’ve previously noted, many railroads were forced to make changes to their timetables in 1951 as a result of an Interstate Commerce Commission rule that went into effect that year requiring railroads to either install automatic train controls or … Continue reading
Union Pacific ran a mix of streamlined and heavyweight trains in 1950 as indicated by its timetable covers, which showed a bulbous-nosed streamliner next to a steam-powered train whose cars appear streamlined but are evidently made to represent heavyweights. In … Continue reading
Union Pacific’s 1939 timetable, this copy of which was contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader, shows three daily trains each between Chicago and Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco, and Chicago and Portland. However, this is a little deceptive as … Continue reading
Welcome back to Streamliner Memories! After a two-month break, my plan was to start posting every other day. However, I’ve received so many donations of scans from readers that I have enough items to last on a daily schedule until … Continue reading
We’ve seen timetables like this one from the early 1960s. This one from 1949 came with the other materials saved by one of the Detroit knights attending the San Francisco mason’s convention. Click image to download a 8.8-MB PDF of … Continue reading
This timetable was picked up the same Detroit Knights Templar traveler who also collected Southern Pacific menus and timetables and one New York Central menu. The actual Rio Grande timetables in this publication fill only five of the 16 pages, … Continue reading