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Trains Magazine General Discussion
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I found a timetable online for CSX and it give mp locations for each town. Waxhaw were I live is SG318.8. Does NS have anything like this online? I searched and nothing came up.

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I don’t know of anything like that ‘officially’ by or from NS on NS’ website - but almost as good is this by the fine folks of the YardLimits.com website, esp. the administrator, batman -

at - http://www.yardlimits.com/forums/norfolk-southern-railway/11200-ns-download-section-contracts-rules-rrb-fmla-etc.html

Look for this section at about halfway down the page, and click on the links for each Division’s timetable:

4) Norfolk Southern

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Paul, thanks for that link. I can now be a little more up-to-date on various stretches of track.

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Hey, Johnny, you’re quite welcome. There’re hours of interesting reading in there, and few of them are short - no wonder the working railroaders have to have a separate ‘grip’ for all the ETTs and Rule Books and the like. Every time I go to look something up, I wonder how the guys on the locos at 0-Dark-thirty deal with all the requirements for taking over a train and the crazy stuff that can happen, in all diferrent kinds of territory, etc.

There doesn’t seem to be a similar collection on the YardLimits.com page for CSX, so that’s why I asked about that link.

Finally, just so I don’t forget - I found that the ‘fence posts’ story is not in the Treasury of Railroad Folklore - I believe it’s in this one instead:

Recollections of an Omaha brasspounder
Trains, June 1982 page 22
learning and using the telegraph
( “BROVALD, KEN C.”, CMO, RAILROADER, TELEGRAPH, TRN )

If you read it, you’ll understand how my memory was confused by the simi

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Thank you, Paul. Of course, I had to dig my copy of that issue out and read the entire article. I had read it two or three times (I have been known to go back through my collection of Trains and re-read all the issues), but I did not remember the Omaha Brasspounder’s reminiscences.

That vignette is quite similar to many of the stories found the Treasury book, so you are forgiven.

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Hey, Johnny, you’re quite welcome. There’re hours of interesting reading in there, and few of them are short - no wonder the working railroaders have to have a separate ‘grip’ for all the ETTs and Rule Books and the like. Every time I go to look something up, I wonder how the guys on the locos at 0-Dark-thirty deal with all the requirements for taking over a train and the crazy stuff that can happen, in all diferrent kinds of territory, etc.

There doesn’t seem to be a similar collection on the YardLimits.com page for CSX, so that’s why I asked about that link.

Finally, just so I don’t forget - I found that the ‘fence posts’ story is not in the Treasury of Railroad Folklore - I believe it’s in this one instead:

Recollections of an Omaha brasspounder
Trains, June 1982 page 22
learning and using the telegraph
( “BROVALD, KEN C.”, CMO, RAILROADER, TELEGRAPH, TRN )

If you read it, you’ll understand how my memory was confused by the similarity . . .

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Thank you sir.

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Paul, have you seen this site-

http://web.archive.org/web/20030120065824/www.trainweb.org/csxtimetables/Appalachian/BR.html

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Dale, I went to the site, and brought the Erwin-Spartanburg sub up. I then took the /Appalachian/BR,html off, thinking it would get me access to a list of the other timetables–and it did not. Can you tell us how to gain access to the other CSX tiemtables?

Thanks,

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That website is actually gone.

http://www.trainweb.org/csxtimetables/

I tried using the wayback website, but it didn’t work. I’ve only been looking at the former Clinchfield, but I guess you could go through the system one sub at a time.

Perhaps Paul or someone else can figure out a better way?

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Dale - Thanks much for the tip, however it turns out, because I have no great expertise or knowledge in this kind of thing - see below.

And Johnny - I did much the same. With -

http://web.archive.org/web/20021214040627/www.trainweb.org/csxtimetables/

  • I got to a web page that shows up in my ‘History’ column as ‘‘Timetable Introduction’’, and is captioned/ titled as ‘‘CSX Transportation Timetables’’. But that also seems to be ‘dead end’ link . . .

So I truncated the ‘’/csxtimetables/‘’ part, and got this -

http://web.archive.org/web/20030209060726/www.trainweb.org/

which led to this, as well as some others -

http://web.archive.org/web/20030209060726/http://www.trainweb.com/cgi-bin/top/tw_do.cgi?railfan/indexf.html

and then this - http://www.trainweb.com/railfan/indexf.html

I’m about out of time to chase this down further this afternoon, but I sense that there might be more to find here, if anyone else wants to look further.

Thanks again, Dale.

  • Paul North.
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Paul & Dale:

Go to modernrailroading.com/digitallibrary.com.

There is quite a collection of CSX and other things there. Amazing the stuff that is on line. No need to purchase the etts these days.

I did pickup a UP book of Special Instructions in the trash today.

Ed

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I tried the above link, and was told that it is not there. Then, I deleted digitallibrary.com, came up with the base site–and was able to got to http://www.modernrailroading.com/DigitalLibrary/index.htm

This has a listing for CSX timetables.

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I found this link.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040718192935/www.trainweb.org/csxtimetables/Contents.html