The North Coast Limited gained Slumbercoaches by 1960, their gleaming stainless steel interrupting the train’s otherwise solid two-tone green colors. In addition to the Mainstreeter, the timetable still shows trains 3 and 4 from St. Paul, though now they terminate … Continue reading
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Although Northern Pacific streamlined the North Coast Limited in 1948, the train remained on the older, slower schedule until November, 1952. As reflected in this 1953 timetable, at that time it speeded up the North Coast Limited and replaced the … Continue reading
Northern Pacific advertised the streamlined North Coast Limited, but this timetable offered far fewer trains than were on the 1926 schedule. Gone was the Yellowstone Comet. Gone were most of the local trains between Fargo and Spokane. Gone was the … Continue reading
This 88-year-old timetable reveals that the Northern Pacific had quite a range of trains in the Golden Age of rail travel. Trains 1 and 2 were the Chicago-Seattle North Coast Limited, which left its respective endpoints each morning and arrived … Continue reading
On December 9, 1939, Santa Fe inaugurated the streamlined Tulsan between Tulsa and Kansas City, where it met the Chicagoan/Kansas Cityan. The all-coach day train made the 256-mile trip in five hours for an average speed of 51 mph. Click … Continue reading
Wikipedia says the demonym for Kansas City is Kansas Citian, but Santa Fe named its Chicago-to-Dallas via Kansas City streamlined train the Kansas Cityan. When the train went in the reverse direction, it was called the Chicagoan. Originally, the trains … Continue reading
This card presents the 1966 timetable for the Grand Canyon, with westbound on the front and eastbound on the back. The card is in the same format as the timetables in the timetables of principal trains, though with differences in … Continue reading
The train schedules in this full timetable are pretty similar to those in yesterday’s timetable of principal trains. The extra space in this version is used for an index of stations, schedules of connecting trains on other railroads, and a … Continue reading
This is Santa Fe’s version of what other railroads called a “condensed” timetable, with schedules of major trains, equipment, a small map, and a brief list of fares. The “principal train” include the Super Chief, Chief, El Capitan, San Francisco … Continue reading
In 1953, the Santa Fe still ran numerous heavyweight trains. The Super Chief and El Capitan operated daily, and the all-Pullman Chief had been completely streamlined and took about six hours longer to go from Chicago to L.A. than the … Continue reading