Between 1959 and 1964, the Wabash timetable shrank from a 16-page booklet to a four-panel brochure. The timetable still showed trains on the same routes as in 1959, but services on most of them were reduced. Surprisingly, the Centralia-Columbia passenger … Continue reading
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In 1959, Wabash passenger trains apparently served four main routes: Chicago-St. Louis, St. Louis-Kansas City, St. Louis-Detroit, and St. Louis-Omaha. There was also one local route between Centralia and Columbia, Missouri. Click image to download an 11.3-MB PDF of this … Continue reading
As of 1962, when this Spanish-language timetable was published, Nacionales de Mexico (NdeM) operated most of the rail lines in Mexico, but not those in the northwestern part of the country. United States residents who wanted a rail journey to … Continue reading
This summer timetable uses the same cover art as the 1961 edition and, like that version, is just 36 pages long. In contrast to the 1961 CN timetable, which was 68 pages, CP’s timetable had shrunk from the 68 pages … Continue reading
A Streamliner Memories reader who wishes to remain anonymous has offered these 1961 timetables for the Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways. The covers provide an interesting contrast between the two operations. Click image to download a 26.4-MB PDF of … Continue reading
This 68-page timetable is longer than the 36-page 1953 edition posted here a few days ago as that one just covered western and transcontinental trains. But the big change in this timetable is the the stainless steel Canadian on the … Continue reading
In addition to train schedules, this Canadian Pacific timetable includes steamship schedules: the Empresses of Scotland, France, and Australia providing service between Montreal and Liverpool are on the inside front cover, while pages 24 through 27 list various British Columbia … Continue reading
Southern Pacific operated a lot of passenger trains in the 1950s. Most of the changes from the 1936 timetable to this one from 1954 have to do with streamlining of former heavyweight trains. Click image to download a 31.4-MB PDF … Continue reading
Published just a year-and-a-half after yesterday’s general timetable, this one shows some significant changes in the Shasta Route service. First, for 1938 SP increased the service between Portland and San Francisco over the Cascade line from three to four trains … Continue reading
This 56-page timetable includes several pages each on SP’s “four great routes”: Sunset, Golden State, Overland, and Shasta, plus two or more pages each on the Coast line, the San Joaquin line, San Francisco-San Jose, and San Francisco-Sacramento. There is … Continue reading