Interurban and main line railways

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Mainline, interurban and steamship lines in the summer of 1948 · approximately the week of 5 July 1948

9.35a.m. Monday

B.C. ElectricCanadian Pacific and E&NCanadian NationalGreat NorthernPacific Great EasternSpokane InternationalWhite Pass & YukonNorthern AlbertaNorthern PacificSpokane, Portland & SeattleUnion PacificMilwaukee RoadAlaska RailroadGreater Winnipeg Water DistrictOntario NorthlandAlgoma CentralNew York CentralDelaware & HudsonTemiscouataCanada & Gulf TerminalRoberval & SaguenayAlma & JonquièreThousand IslandsToronto, Hamilton & BuffaloLondon & Port StanleyGrand River and Lake Erie & Northern (CP electric)Steamer

Interurban stationRailway stationSteamer landing

Light face type, a.m. hours; heavy face type, p.m. hours.

Sources: B.C. Electric: Chilliwack, June 1949; Central Park, 1949 departures on 1942 running times; Burnaby Lake, January 1942; Lulu Island and Marpole–New Westminster, September 1947. CP Tables 6, 7, 151 to 155, 157 to 159, 161 to 163, 168 to 171 and 174, 1948 (steamers on their summer sailings); in Alberta, CP Tables 6, 92, 120, 132, 136 to 139, 141 to 145 and 149 to 151, 1948, and CN and Northern Alberta tables from the Official Guide, May 1948 (Pacific time, an hour earlier than printed); Puget Sound Navigation Co., Canadian National Steamships, White Pass & Yukon and Northern Alberta Railways from the Official Guide, May 1948; Union Steamships Sailing Guide No. 138, May 31, 1948 (printed in Daylight Saving Time; shown in standard time, an hour earlier); CN main line, schedule of April 25, 1948 (Official Guide, May 1948; intermediate stations from CN Tables 23 and 24, 1949, whose times agree); CN Tables 225, 226 and 306, 1949; GN Table 90, summer 1947; Spokane International timetable, October 1947; E&N Table 164, 1949; PGE, April 1948; Gulf Islands Ferry Co., summer 1941. In Saskatchewan, Manitoba and north-western Ontario, the Canadian Pacific timetable of 1948 (Tables 5, 6 and 91 to 135) and CN tables from the Official Guide of April 25, 1948; the Northern Pacific (Table 14, May 1947), Great Northern (Tables 7 and 9a, February 1948), Soo Line (Tables 2 and 3, 1947; the Mountaineer's summer Soo times are not in hand, the September 1947 times are shown), Chicago & North Western (Table 17, the Mountaineer, Official Guide April 1948) and the Greater Winnipeg Water District Railway (summer service, Official Guide April 1948); all shown in Pacific time (two hours earlier than the Central time printed, an hour earlier than Mountain). In Washington and Oregon, the NP, GN, SP&S, UP, Milwaukee and Camas Prairie tables of the Official Guide, 1948; the Alaska Railroad, March 1948 (Official Guide). Ships that do not sail every week (CP Tables 172 and 173, CN Steamships Table 315, Union Route 4, the Alaska Steamship Co.) are shown by their dates in the week of 5 July 1948; Alaska Steamship sailings after June 1948 continue the printed pattern. The North Vancouver ferry, the Harbour Navigation Co. landing times, the British Yukon Navigation boats, the Tutshi, the Barkley Sound boats and the Selkirk Navigation boats on Lake Winnipeg are reconstructed or estimated from descriptions of the service, not printed timetables. Timetable scans from Timetableworld.com (not the B.C. Electric or Union Steamships tables). Steamer lanes are drawn over the water, not surveyed courses. Tap a train or station for details.

Credits: B.C. Electric routes and station architecture, the Canadian Electric Railway Mapping Project, by Paul Delamere; Lakehead and north-western Ontario lines and stations, Paul Delamere's Ontario Railway Map Collection. Main line track, the National Railway Network (Natural Resources Canada; contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada); the White Pass in Alaska, the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (NTAD). Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific track from the maps in the Wikipedia articles Canadian Northern Railway and Grand Trunk Pacific Railway (CC BY-SA). Kettle Valley line, kettlevalleyrailway.ca. Other lines traced by hand from Google Earth and OpenRailwayMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors). In Saskatchewan and Manitoba, lines lifted since 1948 from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) and the Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Pacific sets. Washington, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Wisconsin and Illinois railways (Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Soo Line, Chicago & North Western) from the Mississippi Rails maps by Tony Howe and David Price; Washington water and place names, the Washington State Department of Ecology; the Alaska Railroad, NTAD. Lakes, rivers and coast, Statistics Canada; place positions, the Canadian Geographical Names Database (Natural Resources Canada); borders, Natural Earth. After TRAVIC.

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