This is a New York Central Lines Timetable in excellent condition and is dated July 21, 1940 FORM 1001.  This timetable is in especially nice and clean with no stains, tears, or rips and only very slight wear on the bottom corner where a reader would tend to touch to turn the pages. As an added special feature this timetable is published the same year as the World's Fair at New York and the Golden Gate Exposition at San Francisco; and this timetable references travel and trains to take to both of these very historically significant events.  And, of coourse, this timetable includes New York Central Line's World Famous Motto "The Water Level Route ... You Can Sleep".

This timetable contains 58 pages numbered 4 to a regular size page as this timetable is meant to be read while folded in half.  I have included pictures of the front and back covers along with 2 interior photos showing the ads of the day and the map included in the center of this timetable.

According to Wikipedia: "The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC), known simply as the New York Central in its publicity, was a railroad operating in the Northeastern United States. Headquartered in New York, the railroad served most of the Northeast, including extensive trackage in the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and Massachusetts, plus additional trackage in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St.Louis in the midwest along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Detroit. The NYC's Grand Central Terminal in New York City is one of its best known extant landmarks. For two-thirds of the twentieth century, the New York Central was known to have some of the most famous train routes in the United States. Its 20th Century Limited, begun in 1902, ran from Grand Central Terminal in New York to LaSalle Street Station Chicago and was its most famous train, known for its red carpet treatment and first class service. The Century, which followed the Water Level Route, could complete the 960.7-mile trip in just 16 hours after its June 15, 1938 streamlining (and did it in 15½ hours for a short period after World War II). Also famous was its frequent Empire State Express service through upstate New York to Buffalo and Cleveland, and Ohio State Limited service from New York to Cincinnati. NYC provided the Rexall Train of 1936, which toured 47 states to promote the Rexall chain of drug stores.Conrail, officially the Consolidated Rail Corporation, was created by the U.S. Government to salvage Penn Central, and the other bankrupt railroads freight business, beginning its operations on April 1, 1976. As mentioned, Conrail assumed control of Penn Central's commuter lines throughout the Lower Hudson Valley of New York, Connecticut, and in and around Boston. In 1983 these commuter services would be turned over to the state funded Metro North Railroad in New York and Connecticut, and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in Massachusetts. Conrail would go on to achieve profitability by the 1990s and was sought by several other large railroads in a continuing trend of mergers eventually having its assets absorbed by CSX and Norfolk Southern.Conrail, in an effort to streamline its operations, was forced to abandon miles of both NYC and PRR trackage. Nevertheless the majority of the NYC system is still intact and used by both CSX and Amtrak. Among the lines still used is the famed Water Level Route between New York and Chicago, as well as its Albany Branch between Albany and Boston, the Kankakee Belt Route through Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa, and the West Shore Line between Jersey City and the Albany suburb of Selkirk were the old NYC, now CSX, Selkirk Yard is among the busiest of freight yards in service in the country.On June 6, 1998, most of Conrail was split between Norfolk Southern and CSX. New York Central Lines LLC was formed as a subsidiary of Conrail, containing the lines to be operated by CSX; this included the old Water Level Route and many other lines of the New York Central, as well as various lines from other companies. It also assumed the NYC reporting mark. CSX eventually fully absorbed it, as part of a streamlining of Conrail operations

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