Among the boxes of items acquired in 2017 were several boxes of railroad trade publications, including various issues of Railway Age and Modern Railroads. How to get the best from your train ticket on Union Pacific Northwest?. All mentions in the website are for identification purposes only. James Henry Phelps was born in October 1892, and died in 1984 at age 92.After his retirement in 1968, Jim Phelps became a source for timetables among the community of timetable collectors. Only memorabilia scanned and stored (usually) as PDFs are indexed under the types of memorabilia; many articles have jpegs of postcards, posters, and other things found on the web that are not indexed. The 1947 timetable that I posted here last week was a condensed edition, but it still filled 36 pages. Founded in 1984, the Union Pacific Historical Society (UPHS) is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the history of the Union Pacific Railroad from its beginning in 1862 to the operation as it is today. Public timetables were used by the railroads to document and present the accommodations available for the traveling public, including sleeping arrangements, coach and chair car seating arrangements, dining facilities, lounges, and baggage handling. Jobs at Union Pacific. In July 2017 I was given a large collection of Union Pacific employee and public timetables that had originally been collected by Jim Phelps, a long time Union Pacific employee. Union Pacific Corporation Announces Pricing Terms of Exchange Offers 08/31/20 Union Pacific Names Craig Richardson Interim Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer 08/28/20. Following the war, and like most of the other railroads, Union Pacific returned to using the symbols of its company, such as its logos and other advertising graphics.On Union Pacific, its public timetables showed all of its passenger trains along its system-wide routes (Omaha to Portland and Seattle; Omaha to Ogden and San Francisco; and Omaha to Los Angeles), along with regional trains. The "train stuff" was more than 20 boxes of railroad timetables, mostly Union Pacific but with a few other roads. The railroads that produced these documents may have their own copyright claims. He was Union Pacific livestock agent and traffic manager in Salt Lake City from 1936 until his retirement in 1968. Union Pacific Brochures & Timetables. This train line present 6 locations to be ride to and from.. Offering departs or arrivals dailly, those 6 points are c alled Elburn, Chicago OTC, Elmhurst, Geneva, West Chicago, La Fox.. Metra provides a total of 59 train schedules every day. I claim no copyright for any of the PDFs of documents I've scanned and posted on this site. Jim was one of the founders of the local Promontory Chapter of National Railway Historical Society (NRHS) in 1965. It is a mostly complete collection from the 1946-1947 time period to the end of that type of timetable in the early 1970s.
You can then use the arrows to see all the places where that word appears in the timetable.
$20.00. All of UP's branch lines with passenger service were also shown.Employee timetables were used by the railroads to document the actual operation of both passenger and freight trains of all classes, and to provide guidance for employees as they went about their duties on a daily basis. These may modify certain operating rules, train speed limits and tonnage ratings, as well as other detailed information.The following comes from Railroadiana.org: "Employee Timetables. Railroads have always issued timetables for the exclusive use of their employees, a practice that continues to this day. Upon his retirement in 1968, at age 75, Jim claimed to have been in every county in all 50 states, except for Marion County, Oregon, where the state capital of Salem is located. In July 1968 he was planning to visit Salem to finish the task of visiting counties. In about 1889-1890, the mechanical stapler became available, which allowed timetables to be printed in a more convenient multiple page style. Jim left Denver and took the traffic manager's job at Ogden Union Stockyards in 1932. After some research in online newspapers, I have been able to learn some of Jim Phelps' history. Southern Pacific - Overland Route - Timetable - Jan. 11, … This was in 1990 when Jim Phelps' son Raymond was selling his father's house, six years after Jim's death. 26 - Effective Sunday, September 23, 1956 at 12:01 A.M. - For Employees Only This timetable is a booklet format of 24 pages including the covers folding open to about about 9.75" x 8.25" per page.