Back in the early 90’s, when the last of my Great Aunts passed away, in cleaning out the family home (a brownstone in downtown Brooklyn), I came upon a bunch of railroad timetables and marketing material from the late 50’s - early 60’s when my great aunts apparently did a lot of traveling. I had forgotten that I saved a bunch of them until I came upon them while rummaging through the basement (the non-layout part, that is). I find them pretty interesting...
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You’ve got some neat stuff there Paul!
Curt
Really nice stuff! I was looking at Northern Pacific historical things on line and found annual reports to shareholders, I believe. Those contained some fascinating things like old, old photos of times when the railroad didn't have a bridge crossing the Missouri River, I believe, and ferried cars across each way. And in winter after the river froze well enough and they would lay track across the ice! I will have to search for the photo I saved of that and put in a later post.
I'm not hijacking the thread but saw the N.P. time table and thought of the long history of those now defunct roads, all distinctly colorful and wonderfully unique.
I have a few from 1949/50, maybe including N&W steam Powhatan Arrow. I wonder if the bugs ate them?
That's a nice selection of timetables. Apparently your aunts sampled the trains of many railroads, and those were all good ones to ride.
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