RAILWAY TIMETABLES

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The traditional tabular airline timetables owe a lot to the railway (or railroad) timetables - after all, the latter appeared well over half a century before the first airline timetables. Examples of public railway timetables from North America are shown below in order to honour the importance of railway timetables to timetable collecting. Some are systems (both passenger and freight), others are passenger systems or issued for just one route or a few routes. With the exception of a few timetables (from 1939 and 1970), they are all from the 1940s-'60s period - the golden age of the diesel-powered streamliner, which is featured on many timetable covers. Just like with airline timetables, this is my favourite period when it comes to cover designs. However, I am not a railway timetable collector. The few I have are for comparison only.

For those of you with an interest beyond the cover designs, there are also interior views of many of the timetables. They show route maps, advertising of services offered or excerpts from schedules. Some show complete contents, but lack of space on the website prevents the addition of more interior views.

The decline in railway passenger traffic in the U.S. in the 1950s and '60s caused the creation of Amtrak in 1971, which took over most of the existing passenger operations. A few lines are still active today under their original names, though as pure freght lines, like Kansas City Southern and Union Pacific. Other present freight lines are the result of mergers of some of the other companies below.

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Alaska Railroad

1962
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Algoma Central Railway

1949
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Alton Railroad

1945
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Atlanta & West Point Railroad / Western Railway of Alabama / Georgia Railroad

1939
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1969
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Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

1940

1962
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1967

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B&O
(Baltimore & Ohio Railroad)

See also C&O.

1940
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1957
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1963
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Bangor & Aroostook Railroad

1953
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Boston & Maine Corporation

Boston & Maine Railroad
1945

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Boston & Maine Railroad
1955

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1968

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Burlington Route
(Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad)

1942
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1949
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1964
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1969
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Burlington Route
(Colorado & Southern Railway / Fort Worth & Denver Railway)

1963
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Canadian National Railways

1956
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1958
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1965
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1969
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Canadian Pacific Railway

1950
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1954

1960
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1961
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C&O
(Chesapeake & Ohio Railway)

1939

1953

1953
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1957
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C&O / B&O
1966

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Central of Georgia Railway

1954
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1961

1967
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Central Vermont Railway

1942

1953
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1960

1966
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Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad

1943
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1948
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1958
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Chicago & North Western Railway

1949

1960
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1966

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Chicago Aurora & Elgin Railway

1950
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Chicago Great Western Railway

1954
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Cotton Belt Route
(St. Louis Southwestern Railway)

1947
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1958
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Delaware & Hudson Railroad

1954
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1960
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1967

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Erie Lackawanna Railroad

1962
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Erie Railroad

1949

1959
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Ferrocarril del Pacífico

1962
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Florida East Coast Railway

1952
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1962
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Frisco
(St. Louis-San Francisco Railway)

1951

1959
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Grand Trunk Western Railroad

1967
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Great Northern Railway

1941

1955
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1964
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1969

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Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad

1944

1953
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1964
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Illinois Central Railroad

1940

1954

1965
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1967
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Illinois Terminal Railroad

1951
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Jersey Central Lines
(Central Railroad of New Jersey)

1964

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Kansas City Southern Railway

1948

1949
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1959
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1968

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The Katy Railroad
(M-K-T Railroad)
(Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad)

1944
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1951
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1961
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Lackawanna Railroad
(Delaware, Lackawannna & Western Railroad)

1945
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1955
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L&N
(Louisville & Nashville Railroad)

1945

1960
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1968
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Lehigh Valley Railroad

1948
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1958

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Maine Central Railroad

1947
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1956
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The Milwaukee Road
(Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad)

1946

1954
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1962
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1964
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The Missabe Road
(Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway)

1947
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Missouri Pacific Railroad

1947
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1953
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1961
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1967

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Monon Railroad

1965
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Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway

1955
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National Railways of Mexico
(Ferrocarriles Nacionales de México)

1944
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1951
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1964
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New Haven Railroad
(New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad)

1941

1946

1953
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1967
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New York Central Railroad

1944

1953
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1954
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1961
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1967
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Nickel Plate Road
(New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad)

1940

1957
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Norfolk & Western Railway

1946

1958
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1966
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Northern Pacific Railway

1946

1953
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1958
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1965
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1969
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North Shore Line
(Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railway)

(Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad)
1942

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1957
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Penn Central
(Penn Central Transportation Company)

1968

1969
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Pennsylvania Railroad

1947
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1951
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1953
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1954
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1954
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1962
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1966
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Pere Marquette Railway

See also C&O.

1943
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PGE
(Pacific Great Eastern Railway)

1967
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Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad

1955
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Reading Lines

1956
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Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad

1951
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Rio Grande
(Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad)

1942
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1948
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1951
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1959
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1967
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Rock Island Lines
(Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad)

1944
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1964
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1969
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Rutland Railroad

1949
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Santa Fe
(Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway)

1944

1948
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1963
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1968
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Seaboard Air Line Railroad

Seaboard Air Line Railway
1943

1953
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1960
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Seaboard Coast Line Railroad

1967
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1968
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Soo Line Railroad

1958
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1966
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Southern Pacific Railroad

1943

1954

1963
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1969
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Southern Railway

1948
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1960
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1966

1970
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Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway

1961
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T&P
(Texas & Pacific Railway)

1948
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1959
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Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway

1963
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Union Pacific Railroad

1947
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1960
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1969
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Wabash Railroad

1941
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1954
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1959
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1964
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Western Maryland Railway

1958
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1966
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Western Pacific Railroad

1941
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1964
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1969
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This page last updated December 31, 2023.

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