Eastern Railroad Discussion > CSX and Chessie System's First Timetables?

Being a Timetable collector, I wonder these things...looking at my collection.

When was the first date of CSX timetables to be produced?

When was the first date of Chessie System timetables to be produced?

My main focal area is Akron-Chicago Division of the B&O/Chessie/CSX.

Thanks!
Tony

I'm not 100% on this but I beleive that the first round of CSX timetables were issued in 1987.

--jag

Ster2Block:

I have B&O Akron-Chicago ETT #2 dated 10/25/70, and Chessie Akron-Chicago Div. ETT #3 dated 1/1/74. There could've been an earlier Chessie timetable, but I think 1974 answers the "Chessie" part of your question.

CSX Chicago Division ETT #1 is dated 3/1/87, and that's the first CSX timecard for the old B&O main (the last Chessie ETT in my collection is from '82, but I don't know if there was another before '87).

Deshler/Fostoria/Attica, etc. bound July 23-25!

Interlocker

Interlocker Wrote:
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> CSX Chicago Division ETT #1 is dated 3/1/87, and
> that's the first CSX timecard for the old B&O
> main (the last Chessie ETT in my collection is
> from '82, but I don't know if there was another
> before '87).

I think those are the first ones. They were a light gray, and
still had alot more divisions. By October, ETT #2, they had
consolidated the divisions to the ones that lasted for a long
time (Atlanta, Chicago, Corbin, Detroit, Florence, Huntington,
Jacksonville, Mobile and Tampa). They were also changed to a
light blue. ETT #1, had some others, like Cincinatti, Evansville,
and I'm sure a bunch of others (those are the only ones I have).
Also, they did one system timetable on 4-1-89, that covered all
the divisions, with the info more condensed, but is handy to
carry around. The system one is a dark gray.

I have a "CSX System Timetable #1" dated April 1, 1989. It includes the Atlanta Div., Baltimore Div., Chicago Div., Corbin Div., Detroit Div., Florence Div., Huntington Div., Mobile Div. and Tampa Div.

It has about 180 pages and the cover has a light gray color.

Kevin:

Yeah, that system timetable was a 1-time experiment. The actual timetable had limited information and had to be used with divisional circulars.

That concept lasted about a year, if I recall, giving way to the wide-format ETTs still in use.

KevinD Wrote:
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> I have a "CSX System Timetable #1" dated April 1,
> 1989. It includes the Atlanta Div., Baltimore
> Div., Chicago Div., Corbin Div., Detroit Div.,
> Florence Div., Huntington Div., Mobile Div. and
> Tampa Div.
>
> It has about 180 pages and the cover has a light
> gray color.

yeah that's the one. I forgot they hadn't split Jacksonville from Tampa, and
forgot about Baltimore. I knew there were 9 divisions, and I thought I had them
all right in my original post ;^)

The first Chessie timetable for the Akron Division was #3 01/01/74. The number continued the previous B&O series. Then you have a #1 03/19/78, #2 7/01/80 and the last Chessie was #3 04/01/82. There are two styles to this timetable, I have the original dark green cover and then there was a xerox creatd timetable that had a light green cover. The did a couple of covers on the Western Division like the Akron. They probably had run out of the orignal timetales and then created a xerox with a paper cover in order to give new employees something to work with. Since there was not a CSX timetable until 1987.

FWIW, thanks guys!

Tony