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
As the Union Pacific dropped its secondary trains, it had to add stops to the top-of-the-line streamliners to provide service to smaller communities that the streamliners had originally by-passed. For example, in 1937, the City of Portland made just twelve … Continue reading
Union Pacific’s 1947 timetable had four trains a day between Chicago-Los Angeles and Chicago-San Francisco, and three a day between Chicago and Portland. By 1958, it was down to three a day in the summer/two a day in the off … Continue reading
Union Pacific sent this time table, along with a map and a brochure about Hoover Dam, to George Trowbridge of Battle Creek, Michigan in September, 1947. Page 1 of the timetable notes that the streamliners City of Los Angeles, San … Continue reading
Milwaukee’s timetable expanded from four pages in 1968 to six in 1970. Yet the trains were fewer than ever; the extra pages are filled with a station index, list of agents, and a table of fares, all of which were … Continue reading
The Milwaukee’s 40-page 1956 timetable was, by 1968, reduced to just four pages, no longer than the 1951 Pacific Northwest timetable. These four pages contain just eight tables of trains. Click image to download a 2.8-MB PDF of this timetable. … Continue reading
