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Nostalgia & History > Q for timetable/rules buffs: UP 1969Date: 02/22/06 14:17 Q for timetable/rules buffs: UP 1969 Author: timz UP's 6/69 Wyoming Div employee TT shows five trains westward Cheyenne to Green River: 9 and 103, running on identical schedules; 5 and 17, ditto; and 105. Eastward the same situation: 10 and 104 identical schedules, 18 and 6 ditto.
We've all seen public timetables showing two or more train numbers on the same schedule, but what's the point of having them in the employee timetable? How would the UP advise freights that they needed to, for instance, clear #9 on time and #103 running twenty minutes late? They'd get a message leaving Cheyenne? Or might such a message be hooped up at some intermediate train-order station? Date: 02/22/06 14:56 Re: Q for timetable/rules buffs: UP 1969 Author: wlankenau Probably 9 and 103 were combined, i.e., running as one train, so either they were "both" late or "both" on time. According to a 1964 Official Guide, No. 9 was the City of St. Louis and No.103 was the Challenger and City of Los Angeles. This was back in the "City of Everywhere" days. I wonder, though, how a train order would be addressed? "To C&E Train 9 and 103, eng. 949"?
Date: 02/22/06 16:50 Re: Q for timetable/rules buffs: UP 1969 Author: ExEspee One of the identical schedules would probably be annulled.
Date: 02/22/06 17:13 Re: Q for timetable/rules buffs: UP 1969 Author: dan this was to provide for 2nd sections if needed
Date: 02/22/06 17:34 Re: Q for timetable/rules buffs: UP 1969 Author: WAF Correct. Annullments are used and the schedule reintated when a second section is needed
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