Yesterday’s timetable was mostly ads and other fluff; the timetables and equipment listings fit on just three pages (plus a half a page for a condensed timetable that was totally unnecessary). D&H apparently recognized that for by 1957 its timetable … Continue reading
The cover shown below is the back cover, while the front cover advertises that Delaware and Hudson had “the fastest train” and “the shortest route” between New York and Montreal. In fact, it had two trains in 1953, the overnight … Continue reading
Issued about a year-and-a-half after yesterday’s, today’s timetable is back up to 44 pages. Although the half-page ad on the front cover says that “42 new trains added” in 1953, this wasn’t why the page count grew. Click image to … Continue reading
Yesterday, I noted that the page numbering system, or lack of it, in New Haven timetables was annoying. Also annoying is that the main cover, the one shown below, is on the back. The railroad didn’t take advantage of this … Continue reading
I find New Haven’s timetables almost as bewildering as Boston & Maine’s. Start with the fact that the railroad didn’t number the pages consecutively but instead put a number on the upper outside corner of each page equal to the … Continue reading
As someone who has spent little time in New England, I find the Boston & Maine to be totally bewildering. The area it served was considerably smaller than my home state of Oregon, which in 1952 was served by five … Continue reading
Despite the loss of so many trains, Union Pacific still managed to fill a 36-page timetable. This meant there were a lot of blank columns in schedules that once showed several trains and now showed only one. Click image to … Continue reading
With this timetable, the City of St. Louis was gone and replaced by the City of Kansas City as the Wabash had decided to stop participating in a through train on this route. Wabash still had a St. Louis-Kansas City … Continue reading
By 1967, Union Pacific only had one train a day between Chicago and San Francisco and just one between Chicago and Portland. But, in addition to the combined City of Los Angeles/Challenger, this timetable still shows a second train between … Continue reading
Here’s another timetable contributed by Tim Zukas. Since yesterday’s timetable, issued 10 months before this one, the page count dropped from 44 to 36. This was mainly by combining schedules that had previously taken up two pages into one page. … Continue reading
