BN employee timetables were white paper with black writing. Nothing "flashy" unless you were a switchman passing signals by hand before "walkie-talkie days". All BN Employee timetables look the same for 20 years or more until 1993 where the front and back was in green ink. Since I only got a 10-picture maximum for this post I can get up to the point of my next post. The evolution of the employee timetable...something I may have not noticed until until you pile 50 or more into a nice neat stack. Going back to GN days 1968, the Cascade Division Timetable folded in half would fit nicely in your ass pocket but it was "oversized" as everything else back then. The GN Cascade Timetable is like a 9"X12" and wont fit on my scanner no matter which way I position it. Same with the early BN Timetables as you cant scan the timetable laid flat on your scanner. The BN eventually went to a smaller sized timetable in the mid 70's. Another thing I noticed was that when BN became BN that the employee timetables showed Burlington Northern as "Burlington Northern Inc" and in 1983 it was "Burlington Northern Co" and by 1993 it was just Burlington Northern again. 1993 was the last timetable issued in the manner of the past 100 years. Next time I will talk about the late BN and early BNSF employee timetables that you need a bigger grip to haul them around.
-- Edited by The Krink on Tuesday 18th of February 2014 03:28:39 AM
Those 1990's BN employee timebles were getting so thick (about 200 pages) that there was no way you were going to fold that thing in half and stick it in your back-pocket. This was the TT you need to transport in auxilliary luggage like a grip of if you were an operator..in your desk drawer. BN went through countless different arrangements of Divisions and Corridors it seems forever as thats why I have 43 BN/BNSF Employee Timetables in 26 years. The last BN issued timetable in 1996 went to a "7-ring" binder with all loose leaf pages. What a horrible idea. The "book" was about 3" thick and was held together by a velcro latch/scratch. Maybe it was to warm us up to the ATSF way of doing things in 1998 as the 7-ring binder gave way to a 3-ring notebook that was black with a BNSF sown-in patch on a black zip-up notebook "with a handle" for easy transport. Thats about when I had to say goodbye to active service on the railroad.
-- Edited by The Krink on Thursday 20th of February 2014 02:28:54 AM
