In addition to covering the Great Northern-Northern Pacific-Union Pacific pool trains between Portland and Seattle, this timetable unfolds to the equivalent of six pages to also show the Great Northern Internationals between Seattle and Vancouver. While the Internationals were run … Continue reading
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Great Northern’s 1966 timetable may have been 28 pages long, but as this condensed version shows, the essential information fit into the equivalent of four of those pages. Click image to download a 2.5-MB PDF of this timetable. They do … Continue reading
The cover (which is the back cover) of this timetable shows the E2 Diesel locomotive jointly owned by C&NW, Union Pacific, and Southern Pacific, next to one of C&NW’s “steamlined” Hudson locomotives used for non-streamlined Chicago-Omaha trains, behind which can … Continue reading
Missouri Pacific was down to a two dozen daily trains (a dozen in each direction) in 1966. The railroad had dropped all but three of its named trains, and two of those names were really the same train while one … Continue reading
The Texas & Pacific basically consisted of a line from New Orleans to El Paso, which was probably viable in 1960 only because it was a part of the larger Missouri Pacific system. The railroad offered two passenger trains on … Continue reading
In 1960, MP had four trains a day between St. Louis and Kansas City. One, the Missouri River Eagle, continued to Omaha, while another, the Colorado Eagle, continued to Pueblo with a connection at Kansas City with the Los Angeles-bound … Continue reading
Gulf, Mobile and Ohio achieved streamliner fame in 1935 with its Rebel, which provided service between New Orleans and Jackson, Tennessee–later extended to St. Louis. In 1947, GM&O purchased the bankrupt Chicago & Alton, which ran as many as seven … Continue reading
As previously noted, the Katy’s main line went from Kansas City to Texas cities, with a meandering branch to St. Louis. In 1938, Katy had two daily trains, the Katy Limited and Katy Flyer, between Kansas City and San Antonio, … Continue reading
At 32 pages, Frisco’s 1964 timetable was the same length as in 1959. But in 1965, the page count dropped to just 20. Worse, just two of those pages were sufficient to list the timetables of all of Frisco’s remaining … Continue reading
The Kansas City-Oklahoma Firefly, Frisco’s first streamliner, bit the dust in 1960. While the Meteor was still on the timetable in 1964, it no longer went as far as Lawton, Oklahoma, terminating instead at Oklahoma City. The Meteor had also … Continue reading