Cover

Below is the back cover (left) and front cover(right).  The back cover will have no impact on any typical op session, but is included to reflect how the real timetable looked.  The use of Northern Nevada Ry. fills space occupied on the real thing with Tidewater Southern and Sacramento Northern, and ties back to a previous layout.

First Page

Some of the trains to be run are scheduled in a format taken from trains on the prototype 4th sub (Keddie to Bieber, CA) as of Timetable 6, but none of the trains I'm representing had timetable numbers by my era (none of them ran on the 4th sub, which was the only main line with scheduled trains at the time) so I'm winging it on numbers at this point.  Times are also subject to change as we get more familiar with how all of the traffic interacts.  Note that there are no first class trains.  No WP freights were considered as first class in the actual Timetable 6.  Eliminating first class movements relieves crews in yard limits from having to clear schedule times on the main track.

Most trains during a session will be run as extras and are thus not shown.  I'd still like to flesh out the hazmat info on the last page (again at left to facilitate printing) but this probably will do for now.

Branches and such

Finally, here are the middle pages showing branchline information, along with various instructions, engine movement restrictions, and speeds.  I veered from the prototype Timetable 6 formatting for the latter item, as the format in the later Timetable 10 fit better.  I also departed from WP practice in describing movements on the Raft River branch as westbound, whereas the prototype referred to outbound movements on branches as being away from the San Francisco Bay area and therefore eastbound.  Given the general layout design I think it will easily confuse operators if their train suddenly changes from west to east at the junction despite not physically changing direction.  Maybe I'll change that too depending on how things go.

Looking good

Very nice, has a very prototypical look.

Employee Timetable

Rob,

Your Employee Timetable looks really good!! I do have one question though. What is 'yard speed'?

Jerome

Yard speed

Normally "yard speed" is a speed that will permit stopping short of men, equipment, obstruction or switch not properly lined.  It may have a maximum, "... but not to exceed 20 mph."  On some railroads its called "restricted speed".  On some railroads restricted speed is slightly different than yard speed because restricted speed is used in block signal territory and has the the added caveat of "...watching out for broken rail."

More modern rule books also change it to read "... stopping within half the range of vision of..." instead of "...stop short of..."

The idea is that you have to proceed slow enough to get stopped before you hit or run into anything.

Check individual rule books for the exact wording.

Comparison

Thanks for the comments Jerome and Dave...

I scanned the prototype for a direct comparison with the model timetable cover.  Most of the formatting changes I made were to overcome limitations present with Word with respect to fonts and such, as well as to make the model version fit better on standard 8 1/2 X 11 inch paper.

Yard Speed

Rob,

Thanks for the definition of yard speed. And again, the Timetable looks fantastic!

Jerome