Adding selected rules
SP employee timetables had only brief instructions in the back,
since a separate Special Instructions document was always in
force, formally considered part of the timetable. My choice was
to select rules which were either relevant to operation or inter-
esting in themselves, and filled two timetable pages (a single
8½”x11” sheet). I show that selection in the form of a double-
page spread of those dimensions, in [13]. In the same way as
I created the timetable lines for Shumala, I created a Shumala
or other relevant entry in some of these rules, such as Rule 93
(yard limits) and Rule 221.
A few entries were simply pasted in, taken as parts of the scan of
prototype pages, but most entries were created in what seemed
18. A 1975 SPINS map for Oakdale, California, Zone
87, with considerable detail for streets, other railroads
(the Sierra Railroad and ATSF), industry names and
spots, numbers of all switches (which match track
numbers), and even the bill box location on the depot.
Note the team track here is Code 90, as in [17]. – John
R. Signor collection.
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to me a very similar typeface to the prototype timetable, which
was Adobe Caslon Semibold, 10/11, that is, in 10-point size and
11-point leading.
I must concede that much of this really does qualify as what Al
Kalmbach called “typographic scenery,” but all the rules are real
ones, and it certainly conveys the spirit of the prototype timetable.
This can be seen by comparing [13] to parts of [6].
The outside cover
I especially wanted the outside of my model timetable to look
like an SP employee timetable. I decided to use the front cover,
when the timetable is folded, almost exactly like the prototype,
adding only the word “Supplement” under the “164,” so the
entire Coast Division need not be included. The basis, in other
words, is the right half of [2].
For the back cover of the folded document, I wanted to use some
of the division map shown in [3], but only to show the Guadalupe
Subdivison and neighboring trackage, and also some of the officials
listed on the prototype document (the left half of [2]). Putting all
this together yielded a cover which, when printed on manila stock,
does indeed have the look, the flavor, and many of the specifics of
the prototype timetable. It is shown in [14].
MRH-Oct 2014
