Employee Timetable

Very much under construction!

Schedule Pages

The following are the trains to be represented during an operating session, which takes place between 3:00 and 11:00 p.m. during the last week of September in 1954. The session will run on a 2:1 fast clock.

Trains in white rows are operable. Train in yellow rows have power on order or in the shop. Trains in red rows do not yet have power planned.

Motive Power Planning

Observations of assigned power -- from books, video, dispatcher and tower sheets -- from 1952 through 1956 are recorded in an Excel spreadsheet and the most commonly assigned power for a particular train is noted in the table below as "Observed Power". Subsequently, an attempt is made to assign corresponding power to the modeled train.

Don Wood, on page 79 of I Remember Pennsy, indicates that "by 1955 50% of all freights passing in/out of Enola were still powered by steam -- mostly M1, but sometimes L1 or I1. The balance were EMD F3's, F7's, FP7's and some GP7's, plus Alco FA's and some Baldwin Sharks." A considerable volume of videos and books through the mid-1950's show single M1's at the head of trains on the Middle Division. PG-5, in particular, is cited as having M1 power through the end of steam. Don Wood, on page 79 of I Remember Pennsy, indicates that by 1952 K4s and T1 power as gone from passenger service, save for one K4s which ran into 1953.

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