This timetable is one of the first full size timetables that was offered by the Southern.
Train #35 was listed as the "Fast Mail" which ran with through equipment as Pullman Buffet Sleeping Cars between New York and Atlanta, and Atlanta and Kansas City. Service was offered on "The Great Limited Route" which was a route operated by the Southern Railway and the K.C.M & B. RR.
Train #37, the "Daily Limited"/"Washington and Southwestern Limited" offered Reclining Chair cars and Pullman Sleeping cars between Kansas City and Memphis. Pullman Vestibuled Sleeping cars between New York and Memphis by the "Great Limited". Solid Vestibuled trains between New York and Atlanta. Elegant Dining cars . Also, Vestibuled coaches between Washington and Atlanta and Washington and New York.
Train #37, the "Washington and Southwestern Vestibuled Limited carried Vestibuled Drawing room Sleeping cars between New York , Jacksonville and Tampa.
#35, the "Southern Railway Fast Mail" carried through Pullamn Drawing Buffet cars between New York and Jacksonville.
#31, the "New York and Florida Limited" was most magnificently equipped train, built by the Pullman Company especially for this service, is composed of Dining, Compartment, Drawing room, Observation and Sleeping cars from New York and St. Petersburg, Fla.
The "Norfolk and Nashville Limited" operated from Norfolk to Nashville with passenger and baggage car, first-class passenger coach through without change from Norfolk and Chattanooga. Pullman Drawing car from Raleigh and Chattanooga.
These were the main trains of this newly formed railroad. The out-folding of this timetable offered a color map of the Southern Railway System and connecting railroads of the time.