Every railroad has a different design and format for their employee timetables. These evolved over the years to add new information (hot box detectors, radio frequencies, track diagrams, etc) and drop information no longer needed (i.e.: location of water tanks after dieselization, location of wayside phones, etc.). The format was often changed after a merger when the new consolidated company would unusally adopt one of the predecessor railroads' format and apply it to all lines. The sizes have changed over the years from the large "horse blanket" size to the magazine size to pocket size to loose leaf in a binder and now the non-paper digitized version on a company issued electronic device.

On these pages, we show the evolution of the employee timetable station page of a specific line of road to compare and contrast how the page format and information conveyed there have changed over the years.

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