Burlington still had plenty of trains operating in 1965. The only substantial difference between this timetable and the 1961 timetable shown a few days ago is to the Minneapolis-St. Louis route. Click image to download a 5.7-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
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This version of Burlington’s timetable is just six pages long. One page has Chicago-Denver-Oakland. A second has Chicago-Minneapolis-Pacific Northwest with Chicago-Kansas City tucked in underneath it. A third page has a map with timetables for St. Louis-Minneapolis and Denver-Houston beneath … Continue reading
Burlington’s 1947 timetable featured a steam locomotive and a shovel-nosed Diesel on the cover. Three-and-a-half years later, the timetable has a shovel-nose and an E5 on the cover. Soon both sides would be E5s; I don’t believe there was a … Continue reading
When the Twin Zephyrs began operating in 1936, they took 6-1/2 hours between Chicago and St. Paul, for an average speed of 66 mph. In 1940, however, the Burlington speeded up the westbound Morning Zephyr to just 6 hours, for … Continue reading
Like the May, 1964 timetable, this one uses just two colors of ink (red and black) on the cover instead of the three (red, green, and black) that had been used in previous editions. The North Coast Limited is portrayed … Continue reading
In what may have been another attempt to preempt Union Pacific’s upcoming centennial for completion of the first transcontinental railroad, Northern Pacific decided to make 1964 its centennial year, even though nothing happened that year other than President Lincoln signing … Continue reading
After three years of using this illustration, this would be the penultimate Northern Pacific timetable to feature the close-up view of a dome car on the cover. I don’t have an October, 1963 timetable, which used this same cover, but … Continue reading
The cover of this timetable is the same as that of the October, 1960 edition shown here a few days ago. Shockingly, the biggest change in the timetable is the addition of a full hour to the time of the … Continue reading
Northern Pacific’s May, 1960 timetable had the same cover, featuring the North Coast Limited‘s observation car, that had been used on NP timetable covers since at least May, 1957. But the October timetable shown here features instead the dome car … Continue reading
While the Great Northern often put out three timetables a year in the 1950s and 1960s, the Northern Pacific seemed to update theirs just twice a year in May and October. Here is the October update to yesterday’s May 1957 … Continue reading