Yesterday, I guessed that the train chartered by the Detroit masons went to Oakland over the Southern Pacific. One indication of that is that the conventioneer who saved yesterday’s system timetable also saved this timetable for the Overland Route, which … Continue reading
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One of the Detroit masons who attended the 1949 convention in San Francisco kept a copy of Southern Pacific’s then-most-recent system timetable. The group would have been on the Southern Pacific from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Since the group … Continue reading
Most of Amtrak’s overnight routes see just one train a day in each direction, and when I’ve tried to figure out how to make Amtrak work better I’ve sometimes thought they should run two trains a day on some of … Continue reading
We’ve seen timetable cards like this for the Grand Canyon. The ones I have for that train are all from the 1960s, but this is from 1953 or before, as indicated by the “Extra Fare” notation: Santa Fe stopped charging … Continue reading
Two years after yesterday’s 1965 timetable, Burlington’s timetable lost another four pages. My 1966 timetable was 24 pages, so the four pages disappeared in 1967. All four pages were lost in the “complete schedules” section, mainly by the removal of … Continue reading
Burlington’s timetable lost four pages in the years between yesterday’s from 1960 and today’s. The general information and index pages were reduced from 3 to 2; condensed schedules went from 5 to 4 pages; while the complete schedules went from … Continue reading
This complete timetable has all of the trains that were on the 1957 timetable of principal trains plus several more. Among the lines too minor to be considered a “principal” route were St. Louis-Rock Island, St. Joseph-Lincoln, and several mixed … Continue reading
This is what other railroads call a “condensed” timetable, but Burlington just calls it “schedules of principal trains.” It manages to squeeze a lot of trains into seven panels, but still leaves out a number of branch line trains. Click … Continue reading
This timetable, scans for which were contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader, went into effect just 40 days after New York Central inaugurated the Henry Dreyfus-designed streamlined 20th Century Limited. Wikipedia says this “was probably the most famous American passenger … Continue reading
This timetable, which was contributed by the same reader as yesterday’s, immediately follows yesterday’s, so we shouldn’t expect too many differences. Yet there are a few. Click any images to download a 43.0-MB PDF of this timetable. UP added a … Continue reading