8. A page from the 1965
freight schedule book,
showing the Golden Gate
Manifest train.
I browsed through the Special Instructions and chose some
selected rules I thought were relevant. On the prototype, these
would be included in the separate Special Instructions document,
not the timetable, but I wanted to compact everything into one
document, and these rules add flavor. They also provide informa-
tion permitting operators to reference any specific rule which may
affect operation. I decided to place these at the back of my time-
table, as the prototype did.
The third element I wanted to add to my timetable is, again, a
separate document on the prototype, namely freight train pro-
cedures. The SP did have a document describing manifest train
schedules [7] but I wanted to get everything into a single docu-
ment for operators.
These procedures identify the
purpose and schedule of spe-
cific trains. [8] and [9] show
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