Last year, I presented a 1956 Kansas City Southern timetable that was a fold-out brochure with the equivalent of eight pages. This one from three years before is a more standard booklet-style timetable but still only eight pages, glued not … Continue reading
Although yesterday’s timetable was eight pages long, the schedules themselves all fit onto just two pages. So it is not surprising that, by 1953, Monon cut its timetable to the equivalent of four pages. Click image to download a 1.5-MB … Continue reading
The Monon — also known as the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railroad — was a small railroad but it offered three passenger trains a day in 1951. The Hoosier and the Tippecanoe went between Chicago and Indianapolis while the Thoroughbred … Continue reading
Six years after yesterday’s timetable, the Cincinnatian had been Dieselized and all trains were completely streamlined (except possibly for some head-end cars). In addition, a new train entered the list of “fine feature trains,” although it was not, in fact, … Continue reading
B&O operated a lot of passenger trains in the 1950s, but this timetable wanted travelers to know that eight of them were particularly “fine feature trains.” These were the New York-Chicago Capitol Limited, Washington-Chicago Columbian, New York-St. Louis National Limited, … Continue reading
While New York Central and Pennsylvania railroads competed in sending through Pullmans in the New York-Los Angeles market, B&O alone had cars going from Washington to Los Angeles and other cities. B&O’s National Limited had a through car going on … Continue reading
Pennsylvania timetables lost another four pages in 1958. The keystone-emphasizing (back) cover shown below was a throwback to the 1920s, when printing costs or techniques didn’t allow for four-color pictures or other elaborate features. Click image to download a 25.1-MB … Continue reading
In 1955, Pennsylvania’s timetables shrank from 56 to 52 pages, which is the size of today’s timetable. It’s difficult to see what’s missing, as the tables have been reorganized and renumbered. A few branchline trains that were running in 1954 … Continue reading
New York is America’s largest city and many residents probably thought of the New York Central as “their” railroad as opposed to that other railroad run by people from Philadelphia. Yet Pennsylvania was the larger, more profitable railroad, and its … Continue reading
At the end of 1954, New York Central’s timetable still filled 52 pages, the same as in 1946. But that doesn’t mean it was running as many trains as it did right after the war. Click image to download a … Continue reading
