Getting Real Column - 10
15. The opening pages of my model timetable, mostly
giving freight train procedures and schedules.
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You will notice that to obtain my final result, I cut and pasted from
a couple of SP prototype employee timetables to achieve the con-
tent I want. My timetable deviates from the prototype in 1953, in
that I have shown the westward scheduled freight trains from a
year or so earlier. (By late 1953 westward freights on this subdivi-
sion were all extra trains, although still operating at about the same
times; in other words, my schedule does reproduce a correct num-
ber of trains and their times.)
Likewise, of course, the time and mileage entries for the mythical
Santa Rosalia Branch (bottom of schedule, [12]) are non-prototyp-
ical, and of course for Shumala on the main line. The number of
stations on the subdivision has been seriously compressed; the sta-
tions omitted are not on the layout anyway. This is intended to be
printed full-size as an 8½”x11” page, and in use will be folded down
the middle the long way. Since it is the centerfold of the document,
opening to this page shows the full spread of these timetable
schedules.
MRH-Oct 2014
