With this timetable, New York Central reduced the 20th Century Limited‘s time from Chicago to New York to 15-1/2 hours, the fastest ever. The New York-to-Chicago time was 15-3/4 hours. The Chicago departure was moved from 3:30 to 4:00 pm, … Continue reading
In focusing on the coast-to-coast through-Pullman service over the last few days, I’ve neglected to mention the New York-Texas service that has generally been advertised on the third page of the timetables (though the page is numbered 1). New York … Continue reading
Despite having potentially the fastest connections, Rock Island/Southern Pacific dropped out of the coast-to-coast through-car service by the end of 1951. In the Los Angeles market, that left the Santa Fe with the 20th Century/Chief connection and Union Pacific with … Continue reading
Page 2 of this and the other post-war New York Central timetables shown here recently advertise the coast-to-coast sleeping cars offered by the Central and connecting railroads. I’ve previously told the story of these cars, but the trains used for … Continue reading
Within weeks of the end of World War II, New York Central placed the largest order for passenger cars in U.S. railroad history: 420 cars on top of 300 already under construction for the railroad. The December 15 1945 order … Continue reading
In 1947, New York Central was running 14 trains a day each way between New York City and Chicago. By the time of this timetable, two years later, that number had dropped to eight. Click image to download a 32.0-MB … Continue reading
Yesterday, I mentioned that in 1950 the Lackawanna had four trains from New York City to Buffalo: the Phoebe Snow, Twilight, Westerner, and the Owl. Except for the Phoebe Snow, their eastbound counterparts used different names. These were the Pocono … Continue reading
“Take the route of the Phoebe Snow for your vacation,” implores a full-page ad on the front cover of this timetable (the cover below being the back cover). The ad includes photos of Niagara Falls, Delaware Water Gap, Grand Canyon, … Continue reading
This timetable isn’t a lot different from yesterday’s. Erie had three daily trains between Jersey City and Chicago plus six more that terminated at places like Port Jervis or Middletown, New York. Yesterday’s timetable showed summer schedules, which don’t show … Continue reading
“Enjoy some of the most beautiful scenery in the Eastern United States — right from your Erie car window,” advises the front-page ad on this timetable (the image below being the back cover). “The Erie follows the valleys of the … Continue reading
