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 May 1962) 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.
Download my essay on comparative pricing (as of late 2013): Train Travel Then and Now; A Comparison of Historic and Modern Pricing.
The
Fare Tables:
Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
January, 1953 (3.5 Mbytes, includes general information page) [From a Santa Fe public timetable, courtesy of Streamliner Memories]
October, 1964 (1.2 Mbytes)
December, 1964 (662
Kbytes)
April, 1965 (397 Kbytes)
September, 1968 (2.9 Mbytes) [Courtesy of Streamliner Memories]
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
May, 1962 (672 Kbytes)
August, 1963 (717 Kbytes)
October, 1964 (1.2 Mbytes)
April, 1965 (434 Kbytes)
June, 1967 (658 Kbytes)
September, 1968 (591 Kbytes)
July, 1969 (624 Kbytes)
April, 1971 (604 Kbytes)
Burlington
Northern
April,
1971 (581 Kbytes)
Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad
February,
1970 (624 Kbytes)
Chicago & North Western Railway
January, 1939 (3 pages; 2.9 Mbytes) [From a January 1939 public timetable posted on Streamliner Memories]
Delaware and Hudson Railway
June, 1967 (609 Kbytes)
September, 1968 (507 Kbytes)
July, 1969 (645 Kbytes)
April, 1971 (652 Kbytes)
Illinois
Central Railroad
January, 1948 (3 pages, 4.6 Mbytes) [From a January 1948 public timetable.]
August,
1963 (725 Kbytes)
October, 1964 (1.05 Mbytes)
June,
1967 (679 Kbytes)
September, 1968 (2 pages, 1.09 Mbytes)
July, 1969 (2 pages, 1.30 Mbytes)
April,
1971 (2 pages, 1.29 Mbytes)
Louisville &
Nashville Railroad
May, 1962 (570 Kbytes)
August,
1963 (548 Kbytes)
October, 1964 (1.09 Mbytes)
The Milwaukee Road
September, 1970 (3.4 Mbytes, includes information page) [From a 1970 public timetable, courtesy of Streamliner Memories.]
Missouri Pacific Lines
December, 1960 (2.3 Mbytes, 4 pages) [From a 1960 public timetable, courtesy of Streamliner Memories.] New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad
May, 1962 (698 Kbytes)
August,
1963 (662 Kbytes)
October, 1964 (1.3 Mbytes)
Penn Central
September, 1968 (514 Kbytes)
July, 1969 (1.82 Mbytes)
April, 1971 (717 Kbytes)
Pennsylvania
Railroad
June,
1967 (693 Kbytes)
Seaboard Air Line
Railroad
June,
1967 (715 Kbytes)
Seaboard
Coast Line Railroad
September, 1968 (3 pages, 2.25 Mbytes)
July, 1969 (2 pages, 1.35 Mbytes)
April,
1971 (2 pages, 1.30 Mbytes)
Southern Railway
November, 1949 (4 pages, 4.6 Mbytes) [From a November 1949 public timetable.]
Union Pacific
April, 1957—5 page PDF scan from a UPRR public timetable, 8.9 Mbytes
February, 1966—6 page PDF scan from a UPRR public timetable, 7.9 Mbytes
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 ©1962-1971 by National Railway Publication Company. It
is believed that the noncommercial 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 ©2006-2016 by
Eric H. Bowen
Page updated 2016-05-08
