The cover doesn’t say so, but this is really a condensed timetable. It is 16 pages long, while a true Southern Pacific system timetable in the 1930s was 56 pages. Click image to download a 12.0-MB PDF of this 16-page … Continue reading
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This is the first of fifteen Southern Pacific timetables I’ll be presenting over the next month. This one is for the Portland-San Francisco/Oakland Shasta Route, including both the Cascade and Siskiyou lines. It shows some branch line trains along this … Continue reading
We’ve already seen Milwaukee timetables from 1968 and 1970. Here’s one in between. Where the 1968 timetable showed trains 15 & 16, the former Olympian Hiawatha, cut back to Aberdeen, South Dakota, this one dropped it entirely. Click image to … Continue reading
Between 1958 and 1962, Milwaukee’s timetable shrank from 40 to 24 pages. The big loss, of course, was the Olympian Hiawatha, which was cancelled in 1961. The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair led to a huge increase in passenger business for … Continue reading
We’ve previously seen a 1956 timetable, and this one shows a variety of minor cut backs. For example, the number of daily trains between Chicago and Milwaukee was cut from nine to eight; train service from Milwaukee to Madison was … Continue reading
This tiny timetable was issued just three months after the yesterday’s, but some major changes have been made. The biggest is that the Portland Rose, train 17 & 18, terminates in Denver and no longer connects with the City of … Continue reading
Union Pacific managed to fill 36 pages for its 1969 timetable, but only did so by being highly repetitive and showing plenty of timetables for which there were no actual trains. Table number 1 on page 15 is saddest of … Continue reading
This timetable is not a lot different from the September, 1951 edition shown here two-and-one-half years ago. One addition to the later timetable is the City of St. Louis to Los Angeles. That train began operating in 1946, but only … Continue reading
CN lost about half its passenger trains from the 1963 timetable to 1971. The 1971 edition is just 24 pages long (plus covers), down from 64 in 1963, and contains about 51 table, down from 98. The system map, now … Continue reading
Yesterday I ranted about the poorly chosen photo on the cover of Canadian National’s summer 1963 timetable. This one is even worse, as it advertises a fare plan, not the trains. Because the first thing you want people to think … Continue reading