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Robert Wheeler

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Scheduled First Class (Passenger Train) operated when?
« on: April 18, 2012, 03:52:36 pm »
When did the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago schedule a First Class Train between Indianapolis and Michigan City?

Hint at the same time the miles shown on the Employee Timetables showed zero at Indianapolis and 154.5 at Michigan City. (Also at the same time Monon was at 95.1 from Indianapolis on and also at  229.8 from New Albany although the timetables say "from Louisville")

Hint The service ended when the mileage was "reversed" and "zero" was at Dearborn Station, Chicago; Michigan City;Lafayette; Bedford (not Bedford Junction); and Orleans.
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Joe Land

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Re: Scheduled First Class (Passenger Train) operated when?
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2012, 08:15:52 am »
I do not know the answer to that question, and I do not have a timetable collection necessary to do the research.

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Re: Scheduled First Class (Passenger Train) operated when?
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2012, 03:27:23 pm »
Thank you, Joe for trying.

I hope some one out there does. There are gaps in the society's collection for the "exact" dates for both the starting and ending of the service and at other times particularly before 1891.

The dates are known for timetables before the service started, when it was running and after it ended. but we can't be sure of exactly which timetable on which it started and ended as they are missing.

Another interesting thing to happen is that during the times the train ran the trains numbers "reversed directions". That is to say when the service started odd numbered trains were northward and even southward and by the time it ended evennumbered trains were northward and oddnumbered were southward. BTW the "train" in question was numbered 11 and 12.

WRT to timetables the society has no original timetables or photocopies of them  before NA&S #6 issued January 1, 1855 and after that the collection is spotty (a few here and there, some contiguous, some not until L. N. A. & C. #10 issued June 21, 1891. There are still a few missing after that date. If anyone knows of timetables particularly before 1891 era please let me know ( rewheeler@iquest.net ) as we would like to at least obtain photocopies of them. There were several series of timetables issued by the L. N. A. & C. One series was numbered to at least #104.
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Re: Scheduled First Class (Passenger Train) operated when?
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2012, 07:34:48 pm »
Bob, maybe you can post a list of the "missing timetables"
that our society doesn't (yet?) have.  Best to have
many eyes looking for these things.
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Re: Scheduled First Class (Passenger Train) operated when?
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2012, 11:48:40 pm »
Good point Ken.  Where are the Monon timetables that we do have.  Are they all stored at WHQ in a special container(s) provided for that purpose, in case we want to look something up or maybe scan some pages?  / Ron