The vista-dome North Coast Limited was at the height of its glory in 1957, with four domes, the Traveller’s Rest car, and a parabola-tailed observation car as illustrated on the cover of this timetable. We’ve already seen this cover on … Continue reading
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Here are four timetables with the same covers and nearly the same contents. Sadly, some trains disappeared between June 1967, the date of the first timetable, and April 1969, the date of the last one. But all four are still … Continue reading
This is my favorite Great Northern timetable cover as it shows the Empire Builder in all its glory passing by mountains in Glacier National Park. It also shows that you can’t see much of those mountains, even from the dome … Continue reading
These Great Northern timetables were issued in May of 1964 and 1965. The pattern seems to be that GN issued its summer timetables on the Sunday in May prior to Memorial Day weekend. Click image to download a 18.0-MB PDF … Continue reading
Here’s a complete set of Great Northern public timetables for 1963. They are so much alike that there’s no point in putting them into three separate posts. Click image to download a 17.5-MB PDF of this 28-page timetable. The first … Continue reading
Although two years have passed since yesterday’s 1956 timetable and the covers are completely different, the schedules are practically identical. Great Northern took the trouble to redo much of the interior in entirely new fonts, including the Empire Builder and … Continue reading
James J. Hill’s Great Northern Railway opened a magnificent station in Minneapolis in 1913. Although the station was prominently marked with the name “Great Northern,” it also served the Northern Pacific, Burlington, Chicago & North Western, Chicago Great Western, and … Continue reading
Although the Depression pushed Great Northern’s secondary train, the Oriental Limited, off the timetable after 1931, this timetable shows that the Fast Mail, which ran from St. Paul to Seattle, had sleeping cars and coaches (but no food service). Another … Continue reading
Like other condensed timetables presented in the last couple of weeks, this one is just six panels long. But by 1966 those six panels display all of SP’s trains on all its routes: Sunset-Golden State take two panels; Coast, Overland, … Continue reading
Here’s the 1953 edition of the 1949 timetable shown here a couple of days ago. All of the same trains are still on the timetable, though most of the times have changed slightly. Click image to download a 4.6-MB PDF … Continue reading