Do you know where I can find forms G and H to use on my railroad?
Are you talking about a Timetable and Train Order (TT&TO) Form G and Form H? They aren’t paper forms, so far as I am aware. They are the wording format of an train order, which is written out on a train order form to be delivered to a crew. These written forms are called Form 19 (typically), there is also a more restrictive Form 31.
Here’s a Form 19 example from Charlie Comstock’s site, which has some information on TT&TO.
The wording formats for writing a Form G or Form H order on a Form 19 are found about halfway down this page
http://www.wx4.org/to/foam/sp/train_orders/primers/to_primer2.html
I just returned from upstairs after completing research and now find that Byron has already answered the question.
Quoting Tony Koester (from Realistic Model Railroad Operation): “Don’t confuse the types of orders – Forms 19 and 31 – with the alpha codes that specify the standardized ways to word orders: forms A, C, D, E, and so on.”
Form G is language for EXTRA trains (example: ENG 1001 RUN EXTRA PORT COSTA EAST TO VALLEJO JUNCTION).
Form H is for WORK EXTRA trains (example: ENG 1051 WORK EXTRA 6 45 A M UNTIL 5 00 P M BETWEEN MP 45 AND MP 62).
Mark
Micromark offers form 19 for sale:
Train order forms typically were two printed formats. Form 19 and form 31. The major difference between then was the form 31 had places for the crew to sign for the order at the bottom. Other than that the body of the order was basically a blank area that the dispatcher composed the order.
The lettered forms were the formats of the wording the dispatcher would use to compose the order. There was specific wording and the order of the wording could be important. Several types of forms could be combined in one order, such as a running order, a right over and waits:
Eng 2134 run extra Anna to Fay with right over westward extra trains and No 246. Wait at
Bess until 300 pm
Cloy until 325 pm
Dora until 350 pm
Eve until 410 pm
That is forms C-E-G.
Some railroads stopped using forms 19 and 31 and just used one form, a generic train order form. Later in the 1960’s there were train order forms adopted by some railroads that were actually forms in the fill in the blank sense. On the MP they were called form X and Y and were used for slow orders and gang protection respectively. In the 1980’s when trains orders were done away with they were replaced with new documents called forms, but they were completely different from the train order forms.