The back cover of this timetable announces that “new Vista-Domes are coming!” That’s certainly worth an exclamation point as the domes launched the North Coast Limited from a train distinctly inferior to the Empire Builder to one that had at … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Timetable
Northern Pacific’s 1953 timetable advertises the “faster North Coast Limited.” This means it was faster than the old North Coast Limited, not faster than its competitors, the Empire Builder and Olympian Hiawatha. Although the train was mostly streamlined in 1948, … Continue reading
Due to several rounds of budget cuts, VIA’s system timetable had shrunk from 68 pages in 1988 to 48 pages in 1996. The Canadian still ran, but on CN’s route through Jasper rather than CP’s route through Banff. CP’s Atlantic … Continue reading
In 1981, the Canadian government cancelled the Super Continental and two of the three Montreal-Halifax trains, the Scotian and Atlantic, leaving the Ocean. However, a change in governments led to the restoration of the Winnipeg-Vancouver portion of the Super Continental … Continue reading
Although the rail route from Victoria to Courtenay was owned by the Canadian Pacific, which served passengers with RDCs, VIA apparently did not want to keep running passenger trains on this line. This timetable card, which I collected on my … Continue reading
The Coast Starlight was a true Amtrak success story. Prior to Amtrak, the Southern Pacific had reduced Portland-Oakland train service to three times a week. Travelers from north of Portland to south of Oakland would have to change trains twice. … Continue reading
Built by Budd and originally funded by the federal government under the High Speed Ground Transportation Act of 1965, the Metroliners–along with the United Aircraft Turbo Trains–were supposed to be America’s answer to the Japanese bullet trains, which had top … Continue reading
This is my favorite Amtrak timetable cover for paying homage to passenger train history. The tiny 1830 coach in the upper left is based on a replica in the B&O Railroad Museum. The M-10000 had been scrapped in 1942 and … Continue reading
This edition is packed with timetables, as ads are minimized and most of them are related to the war. At 88 pages, this timetable is very large, and like yesterday’s booklet, that makes the PDF large. Click image to download … Continue reading
This completes Canadian Pacific’s series of domecar timetables in which the exteriors portray two seasons of the year. Unlike previous editions in the series, however, the number of pages of this one has been reduced from 36 to 28 pages. … Continue reading