Site Updates in Progress:
I'm
going to be doing some updates and (hopefully!) upgrades on the web
hosting which should improve access. For the next month or so (Nov-Dec
2020), the site may be down temporarily as a result. Hopefully
interruptions won't last more than a couple hours or so; if you
experience impaired access save my email address to notify me or else
leave a note in the "Streamliner Schedules" group on Facebook. Thanks!
Welcome,
time travellers, to
Streamliner Schedules
Featuring historic
timetables of
the great trains of the past.
Serving discriminating time
travellers since September 2006.
There
was a time, in this very land and not so very long ago, when intercity
travel could mean something more than mind-numbing hours behind the
wheel on an Interstate or being jammed like sardines into an aluminum
can. From the 19th century into the 1960s, North America was
crisscrossed by an extensive network of passenger-carrying railroads.
The competition for travellers and their dollars was keen,
and that competition bred constant improvement upon improvement for the
better part of a century.
That
competition reached its zenith with the Streamliners—fast,
modern, lightweight trains featuring comfortable air conditioned
accommodations, fine dining, spectacular scenery, and speedy schedules.
It is those schedules which you will find featured herein, to help you
plan your journey to those years between the mid-1930s and the late
1960s when fast trains and fine service comprised the gold standard of
intercity passenger travel.
So
set that wayback machine; load some plutonium into the DeLorean;
plot a hyperwarp orbit around the nearest convenient star; or just sit
back and dream about a time when travel, adventure, comfort, and luxury
rode hand in hand—the Streamliner
Era.
Welcome to the Station!
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Eric H.
Bowen. Page revised 2020-11-01.
