Welcome to
The Ticket Office
Here you will find
sample fare tables taken from the Official Guide. Please
note: My tolerance for dealing with long columns of figures in small
print is great, but it is not infinite. For the timetables I made the
sacrifice so that I could have content which was machine-readable and
machine-searchable. But while someone might very well search
on "Vestal, New York", I think it highly unlikely that anyone will want
to search on "$54.63". Therefore, what you will find in this section
are scans-high resolution (300 dpi) scans in PDF format (Adobe
Acrobat Reader required). The 2-page ones
especially are fairly large; dial-up users, You Have Been Warned.
You
should also be aware that fare tables did not appear in the Guide until
relatively late in the streamliner period (the earliest I have found
was August 1963) and only a handful of railroads ever
published them. However, as fares during the streamliner period were
very closely regulated by the I.C.C., you can expect the fares on
railroads not shown here to be consistent with the ones which
were published.
Follow this
link (opens in a new window) for information on sleeping car
accomodations of the streamliner period.
The
Fare Tables:
Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
December, 1964 (662
Kbytes)
April, 1971 (649 Kbytes)
October, 1959: The
following files were a gift from a correspondent, Mr. John Perkowski.
They are taken from a Santa Fe public timetable from October 1959 and
are very detailed. The file sizes are quite large as these were scanned
at 600-1200 dpi.
Page 1 - 1.4 Mbytes
Page 2 - 1.5 Mbytes
Page 3 - 1.4 Mbytes
Page 4 (PDF) - 4.1
Mbytes
Page 4 (JPG) - The
exact same information but in a much more manageable JPEG file - 702
Kbytes
Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad
June,
1967 (3 pages, 1.68 Mbytes)
Baltimore
& Ohio (also C. & O.) Railroad
August, 1963 (717 Kbytes)
June, 1967 (658 Kbytes)
April, 1971 (604 Kbytes)
Burlington
Northern
April,
1971 (581 Kbytes)
Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad
February,
1970 (624 Kbytes)
Delaware and Hudson Railway
June, 1967 (609 Kbytes)
April, 1971 (652 Kbytes)
Illinois
Central Railroad
August,
1963 (725 Kbytes)
June,
1967 (679 Kbytes)
April,
1971 (2 pages, 1.29 Mbytes)
Louisville &
Nashville Railroad
August,
1963 (548 Kbytes)
New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad
August,
1963 (662 Kbytes)
Penn Central
April, 1971 (717 Kbytes)
Pennsylvania
Railroad
June,
1967 (693 Kbytes)
Seaboard Air Line
Railroad
June,
1967 (715 Kbytes)
Seaboard
Coast Line Railroad
April,
1971 (2 pages, 1.30 Mbytes)
Union Pacific
October, 1962—More files from the
collection of Mr. John Perkowski, this time from a Union Pacific public
timetable.
Page 1 (Fares) - 1.5
Mbytes Page 2 (Fares) - 1.9 Mbytes
Page 3 (Fares) - 1.8
Mbytes Page 4 (Fares) - 1.7 Mbytes
Page 5 (Pullman charges)
- 1.6 Mbytes Page 6 (Pullman charges) -
1.6 Mbytes
Fare
tables copyright ©1963-1971 by National Railway Publication Company. It
is believed that the use of this out-of-print material to document the
history of the North American passenger train constitutes Fair Use
under U.S. copyright law.
All comments, original material and page design copyright ©2006-2007 by
Eric H. Bowen
Page updated 9/05/11
