Wednesday, July 6, 2011

1882 Grand Trunk Railway Timetable

Fell off the no-timetables wagon again.

This poor little old thing was originally one big sheet, but it's already disintegrated into three parts, and those parts are crumpled and crumbling.

It doesn't mention Ainsworth, but one can hardly hope that a condensed international timetable would mention a one-horse podunk town where nobody in their right mind would want to go.

Anyway, for what it's worth, I scanned the old thing as best I could, and here it is, in pieces.

7-6-2011 1882 page 1
(Click on images to enlarge)

7-6-2011 1882 page 2

Check out the dining car. If the cuisine was like the décor, those Canadian passengers ate richly:

7-6-2011 1882 reverse 1

7-6-2011 1882 reverse 2

7-6-2011 1882 reverse 3

2 comments:

Janice said...

You know--I found Seaforth, Ontario (east of Goderich "Ontario's Prettiest Town") on this timetable. That's where Charles Lee was born. Often wondered how they traveled down to Indiana--I bet it was on the Grand Trunk Railroad!
And you probably thought no one would look at this timetable that closely. . .

Ainsworthiana said...

If they came to Hobart via the Grand Trunk, they probably got off the train at Ainsworth!!! (And you're right, I thought this was going to put everyone to sleep.)