Is any one out there making there own timetables for there layout?
Right now im in the prosess of doing so.
I’ll keep posted.
I plan to adapt one from my prototype. Why create one from scratch when the work has already been done? Simply use what has been done, with whatever modifications are needed to suit your layout.
It all sounds great in theory, wonder how it’ll turn out in production?
Brad
Yep! But based on the real thing. Wabash RR from Detroit’s Fort Street Union Depot (MP 0 on the Montpelier division, 3rd district) to Montpelier Ohio (MP 96.9)… Wabash Cannonball roarin’ through!! Of course, that’ll require a complete rebuild of the layout to pull it off. Now where’s that AutoCad icon on my desktop?? [8D]
I created mine using MS-Excel - based on my Milwaukee Road prototype. Took one god evening of work.
Jim
Did that for the JNR Nichigeki-sen some years ago, by slightly modifying the September, 1964, timetable of the prototype Chuo-Nishi Hon-sen. All hand-scribed, so it took a while.
More recently, I adapted the September, 1964 timetable of the JNR Katsuda-sen to serve as the timetable for the Tomikawa Tani Tetsudo, my coal-originating short line. Once again, all hand scribed - but not nearly as complex and time-consuming as the other.
Why hand scribed. Because they are Japanese-language documents, and I didn’t have a Japanese word processor program available. At the time, I didn’t even have a computer.
In my case, the idea and the timetable came first. The layout is finally under construction, four decades later.
Chuck
right now im making a csx one 1997 but taking old timetables to make my rules.
I’ll keep you all posted.
I do but will follow the practice of many railroads that ran most of their freights as extras.
This will give my operating sessions more variety as the number and times of the trains run will depend on the volume of traffic.
My bunch has been modeling a slightly different portion of the Wabash- a piece of the Second District of the Montpelier Division in 1964 (right up to and including the merger), specifically the segment from MP 202.6 in Peru to MP 254.6 (Lafayette Junction).
We adapted our timetable from an actual Wabash employee timetable from earlier in 1964, laying it out in MS-Word. 'looks pretty sharp!
While we don’t have our timetable on line, we have a lot of other information on our layout at http://www.railsonwheels.com/ors.
-Fritz Milhaupt
Web Guy and DCC Wrangler, Operations Road Show, Wabash Edition
http://www.railsonwheels.com/ors
my timetable through my home town which i made up a town on the line. but according to timetables zero trains from 1964-1993 when the line got torn out. From people i’ve talked to all that went through was a local.
well im finally getting going on these they don’t look half bad.
also got a few more train videos done. i’ll try to get a demo on my site which is linked below.