Transportation Timetables, 1880-2007

MSS #015, page 1

MSS: # 016 Processed by: Jason Freitas, December 2014 Volume: 10 boxes

Abstract: Timetables for railroads, bus companies, airlines, steamship, and boat transportation companies comprise this collection. The collection was accumulated over the course of about fifty years by various individuals. Though the bulk of items date from the 1940’s to the 1960’s, earlier and later periods are also well- represented. The majority of the collection consists of both employee and public timetables from railroads of New England, with other items coming from New York and Canadian railroads, a wide variety of smaller New England railroads, bus and steamship companies, and railway companies that preceded the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

Collection Creator: Beverly Historical Society, Walker Transportation Collection

Provenance: This collection has been amassed through various donors since 1969.

Conservation/Processor's Note: The majority of items consist of saddle-stitched booklets and folded pamphlets. Modern items are more likely to be plastic-coated or synthetic paper and in good condition. Items older than the 1960’s are generally more fragile and should be handled with care. Four different box shapes are used to accommodate the variety of shapes and sizes: standard letter-size boxes for booklets and fragile pamphlets, flip-top pamphlet boxes for sturdier pamphlets, flip-top photo boxes for pocket pamphlets under seven inches, and custom-size boxes for unique items. “Folders” in the pamphlet and photo boxes are not actually folders, but dividers that sit in front of the items they describe.

Copyright: Request for permission to publish material from the collection must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Collections in the Cabot House of the Beverly Historical Society & Museum.

Preferred Citation: [Title of Document], Transportation Timetables, Beverly Historical Society and Museum, 117 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA 01915.

Biographical or Historical Note:

TBD

Scope and Content Note:

The collection includes both employee and public timetables for various forms of transportation, most notably for major railroad companies of New England. Timetable books used by railroad employees are mainly booklets that span the late 1800’s through the mid-twentieth century. Public timetables for railroads, railway companies, bus and coach services, airlines, and steamboat, boat and ferry services come in various-sized pamphlets and span the entire twentieth century. Also included are a few miscellaneous items of interest, such as train tickets and system maps for Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority.

Related Materials:

None.

Series List:

The collection is arranged into ten series:

Series I: Nation-wide transportation companies of the United States, 1940-1995 Series II: Transportation companies of Connecticut, 1903-2000 Series III: Transportation companies of Maine, 1897-1980 Series IV: Transportation companies of Massachusetts, ca. 1880-2007 Series V: Transportation companies of New Hampshire, 1937-1987 Series VI: Transportation companies of New York, 1937-1988 Series VII: Transportation companies of Rhode Island, 1953-1969 Series VIII: Transportation companies of Vermont, 1900-1995 Series IX: Transportation companies of Canada, 1957-1998 Series X: Other companies, 1900-n.d.

Container List:

Series I: Nation-wide transportation companies of the United States, 1940-1995

Series/Arrangement Note: Arranged alphabetically by form of transportation, company name, and date range. Similar items may be spread across multiple folders for reasons of size and condition. In cases where a single item covers multiple forms of transportation, it is filed with the apparently predominant form. Smaller transportation companies and companies for which there are few items are combined into one folder per form of transportation. Folders with items from multiple companies follow those that represent individual companies. Items within each folder are arranged by company name and date wherever possible.

Location Box Folder Content Date Airlines. Airline timetables for American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, 1 1 1959-1987 Eastern Air Lines, TWA, U.S. Air (pamphlets, 8¼-9 in., one 5½-in. card) Buses. Brochure for Continental Trailways; bus timetables for The Gray 1940-1986 1 2 Line, Greyhound Lines (pamphlets, 8½-9 in.) (some n.d.) Railroads. Amtrak train timetables (cards, 3½-6½ in.); service change 3 1 1977-1995 and other miscellaneous notices (pamphlets, various sizes) Railroads. Amtrak employee timetable no. 2 (Northeast Corridor, as 8 n/a 1984 part of National Railroad Passenger Corp., looseleaf binder, 9 in.) Railroads. Amtrak employee timetable no. 3 (Northeast Corridor, 3 2 1985 unbound pages, unorganized group no. 1) Railroads. Amtrak employee timetable no. 3 (Northeast Corridor, 3 3 1985 unbound pages, unorganized group no. 2) Railroads. Amtrak employee timetable no. 3 (Northeast Corridor, 3 4 1985 unbound pages, unorganized group no. 3) Railroads. Amtrak employee timetable no. 3 (Northeast Corridor, 3 5 1985 unbound pages, unorganized group no. 4)

Series II: Transportation companies of Connecticut, 1903-2000

Location Box Folder Content Date Boats and ships. Advertisement for Merchants and Miners Line; timetables for 1928- 3 6 New England Steamship Company (Providence Line), Orient Point-New n.d. London Ferry Service (various forms) 3 7 Buses. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad bus timetable 1933 Buses. Regional bus timetables for The Connecticut Company, H. & W. Transit 1962- 3 8 Company (various forms) 1965 Railroads. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad timetables 3 9 1903 (pamphlet, 8 in.) Railroads. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad timetables 1915- 1 3 (pamphlets, 9 in.) 1968 Railroads. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad miscellaneous 1925- 3 10 items: brochure on the total eclipse of the sun, railroad pocket map and 1964 timetable, World's Fair map Railroads. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad timetables (various 1925- 5 1 routes, pamphlets, 4¼-4½ in.) 1969 Railroads. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad employee timetable 3 11 1927 no. 5 (saddle-stitched booklet, 9 in.) Railroads. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad employee timetable 1930- 3 12 nos. 111, 128, 132 (saddle-stitched booklets, 10½ in.); supplement no. 1 to 1937 employee timetable no. 132; includes form for acknowledging receipt Railroads. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad employee timetable 1938- 3 13 nos. 136, 138 (saddle-stitched booklets, 10½ in.) 1939 Railroads. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad timetables (Shore 1939- 5 2 Line, pamphlets, 4-6¼ in.) 1946 Railroads. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad employee timetable 1940- 3 14 nos. 144, 149 (saddle-stitched booklets, 10½ in.) 1942 Railroads. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad employee timetable 1947- 3 15 nos. 162, 175 (saddle-stitched booklets, 10½ in.); supplement no. 1 to 1952 employee timetable no. 175 Railroads. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad timetables (various 1958- 5 3 routes, pamphlets, 5½ in.) 1965 Railroads. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad employee timetable 1963, 3 16 nos. 17, 22 (saddle-stitched booklets, 10½ in.); supplement no. 1 to employee 1966 timetable no. 17 Railroads. New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad employee timetable 1966- 3 17 nos. 23, 24 (saddle-stitched booklets, 10½ in.); supplement no. 2 to employee 1967 timetable no. 24 (seven copies) 1 4 Railroads. Shore Line East railroad timetable (pamphlet, 9 in.) 2000

Railroads. Valley Railroad employee timetable nos. 16, 17, 19 (Connecticut 1985- 3 18 Valley Line, booklets); includes “Final Schedule for New Hampshire Railroad 1988 Days”

Series III: Transportation companies of Maine, 1897-1980

Location Box Folder Content Date Boats. Ferry timetables for Casco Bay Lines, Maine State Ferry Service, 3 22 1949-1965 Monhegan-Thomaston Boat Line (various forms) Buses. Bangor and Aroostook bus and train timetables (pamphlets, 9 1 5 1960-1965 in.) 2 1 Buses. Maine Central Transportation bus timetables (pamphlets, 9 in.) 1952-1954 Buses. Regional bus timetables for Brunswick Transportation Company, Dwyer Bus Lines, Maine Central Transportation Company, Triangle Bus 1933-1968 5 4 Line, Wood's Bus and Taxi Service, York Utilities Company (small (some n.d.) pamphlets) Buses. Regional bus timetables for Bath Bus Service, Biddeford and Saco 3 19 Bus Lines, The Blue Line, Greater Portland Transportation Company, 1951-1968 Wood's Bus Lines (pamphlets, various sizes) Railroads. Bangor and Aroostook Railroad timetables (newspaper 3 20 1904 clippings); includes photocopied reproduction Railroads. Bangor and Aroostook Railroad timetables (pamphlets, 8¼-9 2 2 1931-1958 in.) Railroads. Bangor and Aroostook Railroad employee timetable nos. 3 21 1935-1961 137, 175, 199, 200 (saddle-stitched booklets, 10 in.) 5 5 Railroads. Bangor, Hampden and Winterport Railway timetable (card) 1901 Railroads. Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad employee timetable 4 1 1939-1964 no. 19A, 65 (pamphlets) Railroads. Maine Central Railroad timetables (newspaper clippings); 4 2 1897-1904 includes photocopied reproduction

1915-1960 Railroads. Maine Central Railroad timetables (pamphlets and cards, 9 2 3 (bulk 1936- in.) 1960) Railroads. Maine Central Railroad employee timetable no. 70 (Portland 4 3 1932 Division, saddle-stitched booklets, 10½ in.) Railroads. Maine Central Railroad employee timetable nos. 6, 54 (saddle- 4 4 1934-1955 stitched booklets, 10½ in.) Railroads. Maine Central Railroad employee timetable nos. 46, 47, 49-51 (Portland Terminal, saddle-stitched booklets, 10½ in.); supplement no. 1 4 5 1939-1941 to employee timetable no. 48 (2 copies); includes postcard for acknowledging receipt Railroads. Maine Central Railroad employee timetable nos. 11, 12, 17 4 6 1963-1966 (with Portland Terminal, saddle-stitched booklets, 10½ in.) Railroads. Maine Central Railroad employee timetable no. 1, with 8 n/a supplements 1-4 (with Portland Terminal, screw-post-bound booklet, 9½ 1979-1980 in.) 4 8 Other. Hay's Guide to Portland and Motoring in Maine (pamphlet) 1925

Series IV: Transportation companies of Massachusetts, ca. 1880-2007

Location Box Folder Content Date Airlines. Airline timetables for Air New England, Boston-Maine Airways / 4 9 Central Vermont Airways, Executive Airlines, Northeast Airlines; TDI 1939-1975 "Combined Timetables to and from Boston" (pamphlets, 9 in.) Boats and ships. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority boat 4 10 1995-1997 service timetables (pamphlets, various sizes) Boats and ships. Menauhant Land and Wharf round-trip tickets 4 11 ca. 1880 (Steamer James A. Stevens)

Boats and ships. Boat and ferry timetables for Boston Harbor Tours; Cape Cod Steamship Company; Nantasket Beach Steamboat Company; Nantasket Boat Line; Nantucket Express Lines;New Bedford Tug Boat ca. 1920’s - 4 12 Company; New Bedford, Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket 1998 Steamship Authority; Salem Ferry; Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steampship Authority (various forms) Buses. Boston and Maine Transportation bus timetables (small 4 13 1932-1954 pamphlets, various sizes) Buses. Boston and Maine Transportation bus timetables and brochure 1 6 1939-1954 for bus tour (pamphlets, 9 in.) Buses. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (as Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company and Middlesex and Boston 5 6 1932-1968 Street Railway Company) bus timetables (various divisions; small pamphlets, various sizes) Buses. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus timetables 5 7 1968-2007 (pamphlets) Buses. Regional bus timetables for Boston and Worcester Motor Coaches; The Direct Line; Eastern Greyhound Lines; Franklin Regional Transit Authority; Gloucester Auto Bus Company; Greenfield-Montague Transportation Area; H. & L. Bloom; Hudson Bus Lines; Interstate 1950-1982 Transportation Company; LaPortes' Bus Line; Massachusetts (bulk 1961- 5 8 Northeastern Transportation Company; Merrimack Regional Transit 1966; some Authority; Milford Framingham Bus Line; Rapid Transit; Sibley's Bus and n.d.) Ferry; Springfield Street Railway Company; Trailways of New England; Trombly Motor Coach Service; Unda's Bus Service; Vocell Bus Company; Western Massachusetts Bus Lines; Wilson Bus Lines (small pamphlets) Buses. Regional bus timetables for Appleyard's Bus, The Blue Line, Bowen Bus Lines, Cape Cod Bus Lines, Gateway Bus Line, Interstate Buses 1957-1990 Corporation, Lowell Regional Transit Authority, Michaud Bus Lines, Peter 2 4 (bulk 1962- Pan Bus Lines, Plymouth and Brockton Street Railway Company, The 1967) Shortline, Trailways of New England, Yellow Coach Lines (pamphlets, various sizes) Buses. Regional bus timetables for A.B.C. Bus Lines; Englander Coach 4 14 Lines; Michaud Bus Lines; Short Line, Interstate Buses Corporation, and 1958-1966 Englander Coach Lines (various forms) Railroads. Boston and Albany Railroad timetables (pamphlets, 5¼-9 4 15 1913-1958 in.); includes one undated reproduction Railroads. Boston and Albany Railroad, as lessee of New York Central Railroad, employee timetable nos. 132, 140, 160 (saddle-stitched 4 16 1937-1957 booklets, 10¾ in.); as division of New York Central Railroad, employee timetable no. 1 (saddle-stitched booklet, 10¾ in.) Railroads. Boston and Maine Railroad timetable (pamphlet 5 9 1886 reproduction, 6¼ in.)

Railroads. Boston and Maine Railroad employee timetables nos. 2-6, 9, 9 n/a 1898-1902 10 (Eastern Division, pamphlets) Railroads. Boston and Maine Railroad employee timetables nos. 11-22 10 n/a 1903-1908 (Eastern Division, pamphlets) Railroads. Boston and Maine Railroad timetables (pamphlets, 6½-7¼ 1904-1916 6 1 in.) (bulk 1904) 6 2 Railroads. Boston and Maine Railroad timetables (cards) 1908-1958 Railroads. Historic Places of Interest (Royal Dining Room); timetable of 6 3 1916 Boston and Maine Railroad Railroads. Boston and Maine Railroad timetables (pamphlets, 4½ in.-6½ 6 4 1924-1964 in.) 6 5 Railroads. Boston and Maine Railroad round-trip ticket to Salem 1945 Railroads. Boston and Maine Railroad employee timetable no. 18 8 n/a 1969-1971 (bound booklet, 8 in.); supplement no. 3 to employee timetable no. 18 Railroads. Boston and Maine Railroad supplement no. 3 to employee 4 39 1971 timetable no. 18 Railroads. Boston and Maine Railroad employee timetable no. 19 8 n/a 1971 (bound booklet, 8 in.) Railroads. Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad timetables 6 6 1932-1939 (pamphlets, 6-7 in.) Railroads. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (as Boston 6 7 Elevated Railway and Massachusetts Transit Authority) system route 1936-1965 maps (pamphlets, 6 in.) and service change notice Railroads. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (as 6 8 Massachusetts Transit Authority) streetcar timetables (booklet and 1940-1959 pamphlets, 5¼-6 in.) Railroads. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (as Massachusetts Transit Authority, Eastern Massachusetts Street 6 9 Railway Company, and Middlesex and Boston Street Railway 1952-1966 Company) promotional brochures, travel guide, and miscellaneous timetables (pamphlets, booklet, cards of various sizes) Railroads. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (operated by 7 1 1965-1978 Boston and Maine Corporation) train timetables (7½-in. pamphlets) Railroads. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (operated by 5 10 1965-1984 Boston and Maine Corporation) train timetables (5½-6-in. pamphlets) 1976-2007 Railroads. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority train 7 2 (bulk 1990- timetables (pamphlets, 6 in.) 2007) Railroads. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Commuter ca. 1984- 6 10 Rail and Rapid Transit Line maps (cards, various sizes) 1989

Railroads. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority train and 4 17 motor coach timetables and timetable change notices (letter and legal 1984-1998 size) 1986-2006 Railroads. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority train 2 5 (bulk 1986- timetables (pamphlets, 8½-9 in.) 1990) Railroads. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (as Eastern 4 18 Massachusetts Street Railway Company) bus information (Suffolk n.d. Downs) Railroads. Old Colony Railroad employee timetable no. 32 (pamphlet, 4 19 1884 10½ in.); timetable (pamphlet, 7½ in.) Railroads. Regional streetcar timetables for the Bay State Street Railway; 4 20 Boston, Worcester and New York Street Railway Company (pamphlets, 1916-1931 8½-9 in.) 6 11 Other. Taxi timetable for Thomas H. Hargrove Taxi Service (card, 4 in.) n.d.

Series V: Transportation companies of New Hampshire, 1937-1987

Location Box Folder Content Date Boats and buses. Ferry timetable for Winnipesaukee Flagship Corp.; bus 1976- 2 6 timetable for Concord Trailways (pamphlets, 8½-9 in.) 1995 Buses. Regional bus timetables for Cheshire Transportation Company, 1947- 4 21 Manchester Transit, McGregor-Smith, Sargent Bus Lines 1987 6 12 Railroads. Suncook Valley Railroad one-way trip ticket 1937

Series VI: Transportation companies of New York, 1937-1988

© 2014, Beverly Historical Society Page 9 117 Cabot St., Beverly, MA 01915 MSS #015, page 10 of transportation. Folders with items from multiple companies follow those that represent individual companies. Items within each folder are arranged by company name and date wherever possible.

Location Box Folder Content Date Airlines. Airline timetables for Mohawk Airlines, Trans East Airlines 1968- 2 7 (pamphlets, 8¼-9 in.) 1970 Buses and railroads. Regional bus timetable for Quinn's Bus Line (small 1963- 4 22 pamphlet); train timetables for Metro-North Commuter Railroad and New 1988 York Central Railroad (small pamphlets) 1946- 2 8 Railroads. Delaware and Hudson Railway timetables (pamphlets, 9 in.) 1962 Railroads. New York Central Railroad employee timetable no. 46 (Electrical 4 23 Division and New York Terminal District of Grand Central Terminal and New 1937 York Central Railroad, saddle-stitched booklet, 10¾ in.) Railroads. New York Central Railroad timetables (various divisions, 1949- 2 9 pamphlets, 8-9 in.) 1966 Railroads. Penn Central timetables (various routes, pamphlets and cards, 7½- 1968- 2 10 9½ in.) 1975

Series VII: Transportation companies of Rhode Island, 1953-1969

Location Box Folder Content Date 2 11 Airlines. Viking Airways timetable (pamphlet, 9 in.) 1969 Boats and ships. Ferry timetables for Interstate Navigation Company and 1953- 4 24 Nelseco Navigation Company, Jamestown Ferry Authority, Prudence Island 1965 Navigation Company (pamphlets, various sizes) Buses. Regional bus timetables for Newport Bus Company, Providence Arrow 1963- 4 25 Line, Rhode Island Public Transit Authority, Shore Line Bus Company, The 1967 Short Line, United Transit Company (various-sized pamphlets)

Series VIII: Transportation companies of Vermont, 1900-1995

Location Box Folder Content Date Boats. Ferry timetables for Lake Champlain Transportation Company, 2 12 1965 Shorewell Ferries (pamphlets, 9 in.) Buses. Regional bus timetables for Burlington Rapid Transit, Twin City 1950- 4 26 Transit, Vermont Transit Lines (various-sized pamphlets and cards) 1995 4 27 Railroads. Barre and Chelsea Railroad employee timetable no. 105 (booklet) 1950 1922- 4 28 Railroads. Central Vermont Railway timetables (pamphlets, 8¾-9 in.) 1965 Railroads. Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington Railroad brochure and 4 29 1916 timetable Railroads. Montpelier and Wells River Railroad employee timetable no. 62B 4 30 1928 (two copies, saddle-stitched booklets, 8½ in.) 1930- 2 13 Railroads. Rutland Railroad timetables (pamphlets, 9 in.) 1953 Railroads. Rutland Railroad employee timetable nos. 104, 117, 118 (saddle- 1940- 4 31 stitched booklets, 10¾ in.) 1949 Railroads. Rutland Railway, Light and Power Company streetcar timetable 4 32 1919 (card, 5 in.) Railroads. Saint Johnsbury and Lamoille County Railroad employee 4 33 1950 timetable no. 99 (saddle-stitched booklet, 8¼ in.) Railroads. Springfield, Vermont Electric Railway Company timetable 4 34 1900 (pamphlet, 5 in.)

Series IX: Transportation companies of Canada, 1957-1998

Location Box Folder Content Date 1975- 2 14 Airlines. Air Canada timetables (pamphlets, 9 in.) 1979 Boats and ships. Canadian National Railways / Northumberland Ferries 6 13 1967 timetable (pamphlet, 6 in.) 1957- 2 15 Railroads. Canadian National Railways timetables (pamphlets, 9 in.) 1968 Railroads. Canadian National Railways and Central Vermont Railway 1966- 4 35 employee timetable nos. 3, 6, 20 (St. Lawrence Region and Champlain Area, 1974 saddle-stitched booklets, 11 in.) Railroads. Canadian National Railways and Central Vermont Railway 4 36 1976 employee timetable no. 2 (St. Lawrence Region, saddle-stitched booklet, 11 in.) 1959- 2 16 Railroads. Canadian Pacific Railway timetables (pamphlets, 9 in.) 1966 Railroads. Canadian Pacific Railway employee timetable no. 18 (St. John 4 37 1967 Division of Atlantic Region, saddle-stitched booklet, 11 in.) Railroads. Quebec Central Railway Company streetcar timetables 4 38 1966 (pamphlets, 6½ in.) 1981- 2 17 Railroads. Via Rail timetables (pamphlets and booklet, 8-10 in.) 1998

Series X: Other companies, 1900-n.d.

Location Box Folder Content Date Railroads. Great Eastern Railway Company of England brochure and 4 40 1900 timetable Other. Brochure for Lackawanna Coal Mine Tour, Lackawanna County, Pa. 2 18 n.d. (pamphlet); contains reference to local trolley museum

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