US310330A - Railway time-table and distance guide-book - Google Patents

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RAILWAY TIME TABLE AND DISTANCE GUIDE BOOK. No. 310,330. Patented Jan. 6,1885.

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SAMUEL FREDERICK STEVENS, OF NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS.

RAILWAY TIME-TABLE AND DISTANCE GUIDE-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,330, dated January 6,1885. Application filed February 28, 1884. (Model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.'

Be it known that. I, SAMUEL FREDERICK STEVENS, of the town of North Adams, county of Berkshire, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railway Guide-Books, and of which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to the relative form given to the index ily-leaves of a guidebook, and in combination therewith upon the leaves of the latter the arrangement hereinafter described of the printed matter, stating the through distances between terminal railwaystations, the local distances between stations, the time of the arrival and departure of trains, the stations where trains meet, the scheduled number of the trains, and the capacity of the side-tracks of each station, said guide-book being more particularly adapted for the use of conductors and train-1nen. As heretofore made this class of matter was compiled` and vprinted on a large sheet, which had to be folded up to be carried in the pockets of those who used them, from which they soon became worn at their corners and easily torn, and being of a large size from necessity as the mat-ter was arranged, they were badly adapted to be opened out for examination as the train on which they were used was moving, and when the wind was blowing it was very difficult to handle them.

To produce a guide-book in which all the matter before named can be seen at a glance, and which book can be carried in the pocket, is the object of my invention. l

Accompanying this specification, and forining apart of it, there are two pla-tes of drawings containing` two figures illustrating my invention with the same designa-tion of its printed matter by letter-reference used in both of them. 4

Of these illustrations, Figure l shows as printed on the first page where open the name of the terminal stations, the local distance between' stations, and the side-track capacity of eaeh'station. rlhis illustration shows'also the manner of cutting the fly-indices oi' each page to show when printed thereon the names of the stations in their`order andthe scheduled uled number is printed upon the fly-index of that page, and upon the left-hand page, with the book so placed and opened, the running-time of the other train whose number also on the same index-ily, the points where trains meet and pass being indicated by the heavier typeused in designating such points.

For illustration I have shown my invention as applied in its arrangement of subjectmatter to the uses ofthe lTroy 8J Boston Railway, although by substituting the stationnamesof any other route and figures representing, relatively, in the same manner, the same matter as connected therewith it may be applied to the uses of any other railway.

In Fig.` l there are three columns of figures arranged upon the page proper and one Ycolumn of figures in line upon the fly-indices of all the pages in sight when the book is opened at the said iirst page. One of these columns', and that indicated at a, denotes the distances between the terminal station, as Troy, and each station. The column designated atb indicates the distances between stations, or local distances,7 as they are termed. The column designated at c indicates the sidetrack car capacity of each station. The column of gures indicated on the ily-indices of the pages, and designated at d, denotes the scheduled number of the trains, there being also shown `on the fly-index of each page the names of two of the road stations c in their order. The matter thus compiled and arranged on the first page is used in the following manner: the terminal station (herein designated as Troy) and any succeeding station on the road, refer to the figures in the 'column a, opposite the name of such succeeding station. Thus from Troy to North Adams it is 47.89 (fortyseven and eighty hundredths) miles. To find the distance between stations, refer to the gA ures in the column b which are opposite the To ind the distance between stations. Thus from "Williamstown to Black` ington the figures opposite the latter station indicate one and three-fourths mile. To find the side-track ear capacity of a station, refer to the column of figures indicated at c, and find the number in that column opposite such station. Thus the side-track capacity of Hoosic Junction is for two hundred cars.

There branches connect with a main line the distance-columii commences from the station where connection is made with the main line, the local distances being continued in the same manner, and the side-track capacity continued under the trunk-line column expressing the same matter. Thus from Hoosic Junction, where .the Troy ik .Bennington road connects with the Troy [Y Boston, to the next station of the branch (North lloosic) it is one mile, and the side-tr: ck car capacity of North Hoosie is seventeen cars. The ily-iiideX of' each page, excepting the first, is cut to nnderlap in its downward extension the liy of the page which numerically next precedes it, and to have printed on its downward subtending extension ol' ilie fly in their order the n mies of two stations more than are printed on said page which numerically next precedes it, so that cach left-hand page of the book when the latter open shows, in connection with the fiy-indiees of tliefsncceeding pages, the names of all the stations in their order.

In Fig. 2 the guidebook is shown as opened at pages 3 and 4, where the compiled matter refers to the runniiig-time of the trains scheduled as Nos. 8 and 4, and as the relative conipilation of matterwould be the same in all the pages excepting the first, a description of the arrangement of' the matter shown at Fig. 2 will answer for that of' all the intermediate pages.

In Fig. 2 the column of figures indicated at f denotes the ruiming-time of train No. 3, and the column of figures upon the right-hand page of the open book designated at g indi- Cates the running-time of the train scheduled as No. 4. These trains run in opposite directions from each end of the road, the traintiine indicated at j' being that of the train leaving Troy, and to lind when it will be at any particular station on the road refer to the figures in the column f opposite the stations. Thus this train No. 3 will arrive at Eagle Bridge at 7:54 a. ni., the latter figures being opposite said station in columiif.

To determine the time at which train i will reach any station, 'refer to the figures that are opposite such station in column g.

Then other trains than those whose scheduled numbers are upon the index-fly of the open page are running on the same track, such trainsA are designated by reference letters, numbers, or characters printed upon the left-handpage ofthe open book, as indicated at H. Opposite these numbers, letters, or characters there is printed also what they are to indicate where applied to the time-columns fand g.. Thus the letter H is used 1o indicate, where applied to the time-columns, the time of' meeting and the station where trains 3 and 4 meet. The letter E is used to indicate, when applied to the tiine-columns f and g, when and where trains 3 and 2 meet, the latter train being one whose scheduled number is not upon the ily of the page where open. The character is used, as the printed matter opposite to it states, upon the left-hand page to indicate, where applied to the timecolumns, when and where train 4 passes train 2, and thus the movement of other trains on the road, whose numbers are not on the fly ol' the open page, and their relative position may be indicated.

As thus compiled and arranged, a compact time-table and distance guidebook is pro duced which may be carried in the pockets of S 5 those who use them, and in which, as the same is made up, it has the compiled matter in a forni to be easily accessible.

There long lines of road are being operated in divisions, the same system and arrangement of matter as applicable thereto may be used for each division as I have illustrated it applied to a short line of road.

Then changes are made in the running time of the trains, instead of being compelled to print a new time-table, as has been the usual custom in such cases, gummed strips, having printed thereon the new time, may be pasted on over the colulnns indicating the for! mer time of running the trains.

I make no claim in this application for a railway guide-book with index-leaves having thereon the naines of two stations in their order and columns of gures opposite the names of the stations, separately indicating the dis` tanccs between the upper stations of the flyleaf where the book is opened and each succeeding station below, a-iid columns of figures indicating the distance between intermediate stations, as the saine forms the subject of another application for patent filed by ine November 13, 1883, and still pending.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Iatent, is

l. The combination, in a railway guidebook, of an underlapping fly-index; on each right-hand page, each of which indices, exeepting the first, has printed thereon the names of two more stations in their order than the next preceding page, as herein shown, columns of figures on the rst right-hand page of the book, which, where opposite the statioii-iiaines, separatelyindicate the distances between the first station and each succeeding station, the distances between each station and the one succeeding it, and the car-track capacity of each station, substantially as herein described.

2. The combination, in a railway guidebook, of an underlapping fly-index` on each right-hand page, cach of which fiy-indiccs, ex-

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eepting the first, has printed thereon the tions, designating the time of the arrival or names of two more stations than the fly ofthe departure of the other of said scheduled page next preceding it, the scheduled number trains, as herein described. of two oppositely-running trains printed on Signed at Troy, New York, this 18th day of 5 the underlapping bottom of each iiy, a column February, 1884, and in the presence of the two i 5 of figures on the left-hand page indicating, witnesses whose names are hereto written.

where opposite the stations, the time of the SAMUEL FREDERICK STEVENS. arrival or departure of said trains, and a co1- Vitnesses: umn of figures on the right-hand page, where GEO. O. TUPPER,

1o such figures are opposite the names of the s'tal CHARLES S. BRINTNALL.

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