This well-worn timetable features the 400s, the not-yet-daily Streamliners, and numerous steam-powered, heavyweight trains. For some reason, the City of Portland is trains 1 & 2, while other streamliners are numbered much higher: 101 & 102 City of San Francisco, … Continue reading
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Just like the 1957 timetable, this one has 20 pages with its red cover on the back. But there are a lot fewer trains in this edition. Click image to download a 14.4-MB PDF of this timetable. Train 1 now … Continue reading
A reader named Bruce Adams sent scans of some of the items in his collection for us, including this timetable for the Rock Island. Like the 1938 timetable, this one has a bright red cover (which, like the 1938 edition, … Continue reading
Ranging from Chicago to Denver and from the Twin Cities to Galveston, the Rock Island Railroad had an extensive network of Midwestern rail lines. The equipment pages of this timetable list 18 named trains and at least a dozen more … Continue reading
This timetable doesn’t say “condensed,” but like so many others in the late 1960s it has shrunk to a fold-out brochure rather than a stapled booklet. Instead of being three eight-inch panels wide, however, it is three-and-one-half (or, put another … Continue reading
This is the condensed version of the 28-page timetable shown yesterday. Tables for all ten of GN’s trains, from the Empire Builder and Western Star to the Portland pool train and the Havre-Great Falls branch line train, fit on the … Continue reading
After using the color photo of the Empire Builder in Glacier Park on the cover of just two timetables–summer and winter, 1966–the railway decided to rebrand itself using Big Sky Blue in place of the orange-and-green train in that photo. … Continue reading
In 1966, GN replaced its long-running blue timetable cover with this beautiful photograph of the Empire Builder along the south boundary of Glacier National Park. Note that the locomotives are painted in the pre-1962 colors rather than the later simplified … Continue reading
In just two years, Great Northern shed all but three of the 25 local and branch line trains found in its 1960 timetable. The only such trains remaining in 1962 were from Barnesville to Crookston, MN, Breckenridge, MN to Minot, … Continue reading
Great Northern’s summer, 1960 timetable had a similar cover to the 1957 timetable, but that similarity disguises dramatic changes in the schedules for some of the railway’s major trains. Most important, starting in the summer of 1960, trains 3 & … Continue reading