Timetable - April 27, 1931

The first timetable in this collection from 1931 follows the familiar format now in use for several editions. The photo on the covers is of the 'Gymnasium, Madawaska Training School, Fort Kent, ME'. Today we know this school as the University of Maine at Fort Kent, a name adopted in 1970. The now familiar Fast Freight advertisement featuring locomotive 100 continues to grace the inside double page. 
An interesting and more useful version of the census data table that has been in these timetables for literally decades at this point now includes the portions of the timetable where one can find service to this station. This table is now on pages 1 and 2, much larger and provides something directly relevant to the railroad traveler. Need transportation to Solder Pond? Look at table 5. Previous timetables would have you flipping back and forth looking until you stumbled onto the name you were looking for.
Service between Oldtown and South LaGrange is back to an afternoon only mixed train, leaving South LaGrange at 1:05 PM and returning at 2:55 PM with 35 minutes at Oldtown. 
Missing are any trains running on the Medford Cutoff. The table listing them is still there, but no times are listed. (Table 13 on page 8) 
Summer and weekend rates are still being pushed, the railroad is still trying to recruit tourism from New York, Boston and Portland. Overall, about 18 months after the Crash of 1929, not much has changed. 

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