Anybody else here collect employee timetable? I've been doing it for about ten years now. I don't have many; in fact, some people's "extras/duplicates" list is larger than my whole collection!


Favorites:

Ann Arbor Railroad #5 2008
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton #23 1964
Grand Trunk Western / DT&I #3 1982
Hillsdale County Railway #2 1979
Lake States Railway #2.1 1995
Michigan Southern Railroad #1 1997
Wabash Montpelier Division #60 1964
West Michigan Railroad Co. #1 1995
Akron, Canton & Youngstown #28 1965
Chicago, Ft. Wayne & Eastern #1 2004
Fox River Valley Railroad #1 1988
Indiana Harbor Belt #1 1986
Kendallville Terminal Railway #1 2001
Maumee & Western #4 2000
NICTD/South Shore #5 2001
Twin Cities & Western Railroad #1 1991


I collect timetables for roads that I have an interest in, generally lines that I've seen in person. Occasionally I'll pick up a timetable because it looks cool or it has an interesting format. Maps are always welcomed additions, but not every timetable has one. I love timetables that are books. Norfolk Southern seems to have had the best format, up to the Conrail split. They are convenient to carry and read and easy to store. Loose pages in binders are annoying, especially because the binders are always in short supply. I thankfully have a Canadian National and a Conrail binder.

There are, oddly some glaring omissions from my collection. I've come to realize recently that I have no New York Central employee timetables, even though I have a full set of from Penn Central and consider myself a staunch New York Central fan. I am also lacking a Norfolk Southern Illinois Division from the 1990s even though I have the rest of the NS system from that era. I'd really like to find an Indiana & Ohio timetable, but they seem especially hard to get.

Regretfully, i have no employee timetables. However I do have two employee Rule Books.

"Lehigh Valley Railroad Company BOOK OF RULES"
[issued in 4 1/4" x 9 1/8" paperback, cream cover, black print.]

"Chicago and North Western System: RULES for the Government of the OPERATING DEPARTMENT" - Book #21119
[issued in 4 1/8" x 6 5/16" hard bound, green cover, gold print.]

I used them as reference when I was developing the Book of Rules for the Lehigh Susquehanna & Western. I publish the LS&W's Rule Books in the Lehigh Valley format.

I'm a HUUUUGGGGEEEE collector to say the least - been doing so for about 18 years. I have about 3000 pieces in my collection. Check out my post on the SWAP PAGE. If you need any certain ones from the list - let me know.

Check out my post about "why I collect timetables"

Steve

Steve "FedEx13"

Here are my two Books of Rules. Like I said, I have been using them as guides to develop a Book of Rules for the Lehigh Susquehanna & Western. It will have the same format as the LV one. It takes the LV book as its primary inspiration but there are sections where I borrowed heavily from the CNW.

The light was poor inside, I didn't like what I was getting with the flash so I took them outside, where it was threatening the "every afternoon shower" (take that to mean 20-minute DUMP ... an inch - inch-and-a-half) but the light was interesting so I made use of the tool box in the bed of "Horace" Dodge. [Look him up ... he was one of the Dodge Brothers! Horace Elgin Dodge, Sr. (May 17, 1868 – December 10, 1920)]

Anyway, here are the Rule Books ...

I like that LV Rule Book. Seeing how I don't have many LV items, I would be interested in that one, if you ever wanted to "find a home for it".

I'll try to remember that. Sort-term memory has been a bit flaky lately!

Hopefully I'll be around a bit longer ... at least 'til I finish my 2010 Summer Structure Challenge!

Well, if this is show and tell:

You two out-weigh me big time in collectables!

You've already seen my two Rule Books ... so here is my only other piece of "Railroadianna" ... the Pennsy Trainman's Ticket Punch (I told the story of its "Liberation" elsewhere on this Forum.) :oops:







Because of how it was acquired, this one is my "Most-Prized" of the three!

Edit: A better lit "Faux-Toe" of the Ticket Punch.