Does anyone happen to have a Lehigh Valley RR employee timetable in their collection? Best would be one from about 1940. Looking for train order office location information for the line east and west of Towanda, Pennsylvania. I have looked at system maps on the 'Net, however, these have a problem. They do not always show all of the offices on any given line. Especially if they were simply used as a train order office, and did no other company business.
I have one from 1962, so is too new. Towanda is on the main. How far do you wish to cover in each direction?
Probably at least from Wilkes-Barre at least through Sayre. As nearly as I can tell, Sayre apparently was where the dispatchers office was around that time.
Lehigh Valley station, yard and shop at Sayre, PA, chosen because it was roughly midway between Buffalo and Newark. That footbridge was a fan favorite. Gone today I think.
I might be able to access the archives at the RR Museum of PA next week and see what exists there for 1940.
Actually, the timetable doesn't specifically have that either, at least the 1962 ETT I have doesn't. According to that time table the dispatchers were located at Jersey City, Coxton and Buffalo. I would assume that operators were at block or interlocking stations.
The full understanding of Employee Timetable is not granted to 'outsiders'. Just like the Book of Rules, the understanding of a Employee Timetable is dependent on how the various elements of it are actually applied. Reading the documents is one thing, you can't truly understand what you are reading until you actually see the elements that you read being put into actions by the employees governed by those documents. The same terms can be applied slightly differently in going from carrier to carrier. In some cases even different Divisions of the same carrier may have different interpretations of the same worded Rules and/or TTSI. Participating in CSX's Centralized Dispatching Center, one of the big benefits was in getting rules all interpreted in the same manner all across the property, it took a lot of work to accomplish.
