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Date: 12/14/17 04:13
Timetable Thursday - Nickel Plate 1963 Toledo & St. Louis Divns
Author: Englewood

I hope some NKP fan will tell us how much of this
trackage is still in existence and how busy it is.

Link to 1963 Sandusky, New Castle and Indianapolis Divns. timetable
https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4442580



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/21/17 04:24 by Englewood.



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Date: 12/14/17 04:14
Re: Timetable Thursday - Nickel Plate 1963 Toledo & St. Louis Div
Author: Englewood

pg 6. It looks like most of the line between Detroit and
St. Louis was non-signaled.



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Date: 12/14/17 04:15
Re: Timetable Thursday - Nickel Plate 1963 Toledo & St. Louis Div
Author: Englewood

pg 7. Note special instruction (n).

pg 8. Special instruction (u) still has some steam related
information.

Special instruction (v). How does one differentiate between
the "odor between rotten cabbage and skunk" and a stench bomb?



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Date: 12/14/17 04:16
Re: Timetable Thursday - Nickel Plate 1963 Toledo & St. Louis Div
Author: Englewood

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Date: 12/14/17 04:17
Re: Timetable Thursday - Nickel Plate 1963 Toledo & St. Louis Div
Author: Englewood

pg 14. Instructions for operation of Oscillating white and red lights.



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Date: 12/14/17 04:18
Re: Timetable Thursday - Nickel Plate 1963 Toledo & St. Louis Div
Author: Englewood

pg 16. Power braking instructions to make sure the conductor's
coffee stays in the cup.



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Date: 12/14/17 04:19
Re: Timetable Thursday - Nickel Plate 1963 Toledo & St. Louis Div
Author: Englewood

pg 19. Ambulance service. Make sure the driver makes the turn
towards the hospital and not the funeral home !!


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Date: 12/14/17 07:13
Re: Timetable Thursday - Nickel Plate 1963 Toledo & St. Louis Div
Author: NKP779

Everything west of Frankfort - Route of the Eastbound Golden Spike Centennial Limited with NKP 759 in May 1969 - is gone. Everything east of Bluffton, Ind is gone except for the short section between Grand Rapids and Waterville, Ohio which is the moribund remains of the TLE&W tourist railroad. Between Frankfort and Bluffton there are sections that are - or were - still in service, like the Kokomo area.

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Date: 12/14/17 07:26
Re: Timetable Thursday - Nickel Plate 1963 Toledo & St. Louis Div
Author: Jimbo

Thanks for posting this timetable. It was probably the last one the Nickel Plate published before the N&W merger. This portion of the NKP, the former "Clover Leaf," was originally built as narrow gauge and with the combining of the parallel Wabash in the N&W merger, soon began to be downgraded. Yes, not much is left.

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Date: 12/14/17 08:45
Re: Timetable Thursday - Nickel Plate 1963 Toledo & St. Louis Div
Author: King_Coal

Thanks for posting this. Wonder how many movement orders were issued despite the freight train schedules shown?

Interesting posting on the ambulance services - quite a few are funeral homes! Yikes.

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Date: 12/14/17 10:33
Re: Timetable Thursday - Nickel Plate 1963 Toledo & St. Louis Div
Author: Englewood

King_Coal Wrote:
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> Thanks for posting this. Wonder how many movement
> orders were issued despite the freight train
> schedules shown?
>
Could have been quite a few trainorders written. I dispatched
something similar on the ICG. Lots of sections,rights of track
and meets were issued

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Date: 12/14/17 10:57
Re: Timetable Thursday - Nickel Plate 1963 Toledo & St. Louis Div
Author: Seventyfive

Englewood Wrote:
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> pg 19. Ambulance service. Make sure the driver
> makes the turn
> towards the hospital and not the funeral home !!

I wonder if this was incentive for railroaders to work safely;
if claiming injury they might not know where they would
spend the night.

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Date: 12/14/17 16:41
Re: Timetable Thursday - Nickel Plate 1963 Toledo & St. Louis Div
Author: BigSkyBlue

I've never seen a NKP employee's timetable before. The NKP stayed competitive for St. Louis business in spite of an inferior physical plant. Thanks for posting it! BSB

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