![]() ![]() Flights originated in Sydney with stops at Nadi, Canton Island, Honolulu, and San Francisco, with the final destination of Vancouver. Qantas Airlines, at the time known as Qantas Empire Airways, acquired British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines in 1954, taking over BCPA’s trans-Pacific routes and introducing the first Qantas service between Australia and North America. The new airline served 50 cities including 22 cities in Texas and New Mexico, part of Pioneer’s route network, under legendary president Robert Six and Vice President Harding Lawrence, who would later play a transformative role as President of Braniff International. It would later acquire Northeast, Western, and Northwest Airlines as well.ġ955 saw the merger of Pioneer Airlines, in operation since 1945, and Continental, founded in 1934. The airline would operate under this joint name until 1955, from which point it was simply known as Delta. The first timetable following the airlines’ merger shows a view of Chicago’s Michigan Avenue from the riverfront Chicago is noted here as the northern terminal of Delta-C&S Airlines. The airline’s New York Ambassador Service connected New York and Los Angeles with non-stop 11-hour flights.ĭelta Airlines and Chicago & Southern Airlines merged May 1, 1953, creating the fifth-largest domestic US airline with service in 61 cities across the US and the Caribbean, creating the first international routes for Delta. TWA introduced non-stop coast-to-coast service, marketed as the first in airline history, in November 1953. The first transcontinental flights, operated by TWA predecessor Transcontinental Air Transport in 1929, would have stopped at some 13 cities on the 48-hour cross-country journey. New York Central 20th Century Limited SchedulesįIRST NON-STOP COAST-TO-COAST COMMERCIAL AIRLINE SERVICE Prolific industrial designers were behind both sets - Henry Dreyfuss for the 20 th Century Limited, and Raymond Loewy with the Broadway Limited. The railroads were so competitive, in fact, they both introduced new streamlined Art Deco train sets on the same day: June 15, 1938. The New York Central and Pennsylvania Railroads had long been competitors, connecting the East Coast and the Midwest with routes that included flagship service on the NYC’s 20 th Century Limited and the PRR’s Broadway Limited, with both named trains dating back to the early 20 th century and catering to upper-class travelers. JUNE 15, 1938: THE DEBUT OF TWO LEGENDARY STREAMLINERS Objects from our collection reveal impactful moments like the first non-stop coast-to-coast airline service, the beginnings of Amtrak, and the first service on the Skokie Swift, today’s CTA Yellow Line. Materials from five collections appear in the exhibit, preserved by collectors who saw the value of these ephemeral documents to transportation history: George M. The Transportation Library is proud to debut a new exhibit: Timetable Firsts: Significant Moments in 20th Century Transportation History Illustrated Through Timetables in the Collections of the Transportation Library is now on display in our fifth floor lobby in University Library. Freely available for travelers to collect at railroad stations, airports, and travel agencies around the world, they were widely-distributed canvases for companies to communicate a corporate identity, promote a new destination, or to introduce the launch of a new streamlined locomotive, a new aircraft – even the beginning of the jet age. However, timetables were also promotional materials. ![]() ![]() Once they were no longer useful, most timetables were discarded. The primary purpose of a timetable was to provide passengers with schedules, route maps, and other information for planning their travels. Airline and railroad schedules were regularly updated, and with the release of a new timetable, the previous edition was rendered obsolete. Printed timetables were, by definition, ephemeral.
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