Between 1938 and 1948, New York Central’s timetable grew from 32 to 52 pages, mainly because after 1942 it combined the Big Four, Boston & Albany, Michigan Central, and Pittsburgh & Lake Erie timetables into that of the parent road. … Continue reading
Despite declines in rail passenger travel after 1920, the New York Central in 1938 still operated a dozen trains a day each way between New York and Chicago, plus at least four a day between New York and St. Louis … Continue reading
In the three years since yesterday’s 1964 edition, the B&O/C&O timetable shrank from 28 to 12 pages. Most of the main trains are still there–including the Capital Limited, National Limited, and George Washington–but the Shenandoah was renamed the Diplomat. Operating … Continue reading
Chesapeake & Ohio took control of the Baltimore & Ohio in the early 1960s, and this timetable shows trains from both. It accompanies each schedule with abstract, subway-style maps of each route, which may have been easy to read but … Continue reading
B&O had quite a few passenger trains in 1948: five daily trains from New York to Chicago (though, somehow, only four from Chicago to New York), three each way between New York and St. Louis, as well as through trains … Continue reading
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
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
