Scans of this timetable were contributed by a Streamliner Memories reader to fill in the gap between the 1951 timetable and the one for 1958. In 1951, UP still had enough steam locomotives to put one on its timetable cover, … Continue reading
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A Streamliner Memories reader contributed this 1927 timetable, which is full of information and schedules for trains as the Golden Age of train travel was waning. Thanks to competition from the automobile, intercity passenger train ridership peaked in about 1920. … Continue reading
Intrigued by the Union Pacific’s Transcon, which I had never heard of before acquiring yesterday’s menu, I hoped that this 1946 timetable would provide more information. The timetable I mentioned yesterday was a condensed version, so I thought the full … Continue reading
“Relax in the most interesting railroad car you’ve ever seen!” says the back of this timetable. “It’s the new Raymond Loewy-designed Lewis and Clark Traveller’s Rest buffet-lounge on the Vista-Dome North Coast Limited.” A picture shows the interior but the … Continue reading
Vista domes have arrived and Northern Pacific can finally call its premiere train, the North Coast Limited, an equal to, or in some ways even superior to, the Empire Builder and Olympian Hiawatha. However, the Traveller’s Rest car would not … Continue reading
Northern Pacific’s Winter-Spring 1953 timetable (which appeared about nine months before its Fall-Winter 1953 timetable previously shown here) repeatedly advertises the North Coast Limited‘s “new fast schedule.” As noted here before, unlike Great Northern and the Milwaukee Road, NP didn’t … Continue reading
This timetable was issued less than two years after the Western Star had replaced the Oriental Limited, and GN still treated it as a first-class train. It made more stops than the Empire Builder, but the main difference in the … Continue reading
Issued just a few months after the introduction of the semi-streamlined North Coast Limited, this timetable contains several pages of advertising for that train. This includes a description and photo of the observation car on the back cover plus two … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen an April, 1964 timetable for the combined C&O/B&O passenger systems. This four-page brochure is a revision to a slightly previous timetable. Click image to download a 1.1-MB PDF of this timetable. The presence of asthma in our … Continue reading
We’ve seen that Rio Grande’s 1962 timetable was a six-panel folder. This one uses the same amount of paper but is a 12-page booklet with the pages held together at the center with glue instead of the more usual stables. … Continue reading