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front cover (the right-hand part) almost
verbatim, except for calling mine a
“Supplement,” so no one expects it to
contain the entire Coast Division mate-
rial. One can then print it on manila
stock to get the same appearance.
But before getting to my version, let’s
look at more of the SP version. The
back cover of most SP employee time-
tables of this era displayed a division
map, as does this one, shown in [3].
The map is interesting, but contains far
more detail than needed for my lay-
out, so I simplified it to show just the
subdivision I model, the Guadalupe
Subdivision, the southernmost part
of the Coast Division, from San Luis
Obispo to Santa Barbara. (I will show
it later.) In other circumstances, one
might wish to show the entire map.
So that’s the exterior. What about inte-
rior pages? The core pages of these
timetables, as you would expect, are
the pages of train schedules. They are
really complex and busy, as the 1950
example in [4] shows, and certainly
contain far more information than can
be applied on my layout.
And this is not the entire subdivision;
the schedule of the Lompoc Branch of
5. Coast Division
Special Instructions,
Issue No. 2, effec-
tive April 30, 1950.
The resemblance to
the front cover of [1]
is obvious, though
it is on white stock;
note the cover
below states that
these instructions
constitute a part of
the timetable.
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the Subdivision was too large to fit here, and had to be printed on
an adjoining page.
But as with the cover, the appearance here is so characteristic of
the railroad that I wanted to use as much of it as I could, for my
own timetable interior pages.
Some added features
And in addition to the cover and the train schedule pages, there is
still more that can usefully be included. One addition can be some
of the special instructions for the division, or just for that subdivi-
sion, which may be relevant to model operation. In SP’s Timetable
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6. Two pages of the Coast Division Special Instructions
No. 2, for April 1950, showing the kind of informa-
tion included. These pages are for the Guadalupe
Subdivision; there were three more pages just for
this subdivision. Altogether, there were 30 pages of
instructions in this document, much more than is in
the corresponding timetables.
MRH-Oct 2014
