I have a 1966 Official Railrway Guide that I use as a reference and this brings up a question is the guide still published?
Herdebu: Command ‘official guide’ in Search Our Community, Trains Magazine Forums, and you will find several past discussions on this subject. My memory is that the Guide is no longer published. I know you will Google for it in vain on the Internet.
Simmons Boardman is or was the publisher. I believe it still exists but not in the same form as you have in 1966 in that it is for freight railroads only. There was, and maybe still is, a passenger only guide but the only railroads’ schedules listed after Amtrak were basically Amtrak and Via. Again, the main differences are lack of schedules and station by station tables, nor are all rail lines presented in either book. I haven’t seen a copy of either in almost 10 years, but then there is no agency, freight or passenger, with local agent; only so called passenger agent would be a travel agency which would rely on the internet anyway.
UBM Global Trade now prints the guide, now called the Official Railway Guide. They also print the Official Railway Equipment Register and the Pocket List of Railroad Officials.
http://www.railresource.com goes directly to their railroad department.
Jeff
RailWAY ?? RailROAD?? and yes, there is a big difference rather than just grammatically.