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50-768: Perhaps one of the earliest examples of the RS3m is the former Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad 's RS3m fleet. Built in the early 1950s by ALCO, the Katy had them rebuilt in the late 1950s by ALCO competitor, EMD, who rebuilt them with GP9 long hoods to make room for the larger EMD 567 prime movers . The Chicago and North Western Railway had a pair of RS-3ms (1613 & 1624) that were rebuilt by ALCO in March 1960 using an 1,800 hp 12 cylinder ALCO 251-B engine and schedule 26L air brake components. These featured long hoods from ALCO RS-11 road switchers. The Missouri Pacific Railroad had

100-522: A compendium of the schedules of major European railway services, has been in publication since 1873 (appearing monthly since 1883). Originally, and for most of its history, it was published by Thomas Cook & Son and included Thomas Cook or Cook's in its title. Although Thomas Cook Group plc ceased publication in 2013, the Thomas Cook European Rail Timetable was revived by a new company in early 2014 as simply

150-629: A book was published to mark the 1000th edition of the JTB timetable, containing reproductions of all one thousand covers, selected timetables and maps, and articles on the way the timetable is produced. There are also many searchable online timetables covering all forms of transport, for example http://www.hyperdia.com/ . Timetables for PDAs, mobile phones and PCs are readily available. Published every month and covers all trains, highway bus, ferry and domestic air services. Every year, in December and June,

200-428: A central place and list the next few departures for each line, or all departures in the next hour. Displays on platforms usually just show the next departure (or perhaps the next few) from that platform. Timetables may be printed as books, booklets, folded or plain cards or paper, posters , or hand-written on posters or blackboards , shown on back-lit displays, or published on-line or as SMS or text messages. With

250-605: A fleet of RS-2s and RS-3s that were rebuilt in their North Little Rock shops, receiving the GP12 designation after rebuilding with EMD 567 engines. These look like normal Alco RS-3s with the addition of more exhaust stacks. By the year 1958, the New Haven RR needed renewed power but couldn't afford new. They decided to rebuild the RS-3 fleet "in kind" as they were ten years old by that point. And for first-generation diesels, ten years

300-797: A new heritage program, in July 2005, Union Pacific unveiled a new EMD SD70ACe locomotive, Union Pacific 1988 , painted in traditional MKT colors. The Katy operated these named passenger trains: (On its main line routes, trains originated in St. Louis or in Kansas City, linking in Parsons, KS, split in Denison, TX , with sections going via either through Dallas or Fort Worth, linking again in Waco, then heading south to either San Antonio or Houston.) Presidents of

350-495: A particular category and is valid for a specified period. The latter could take the form of a book, leaflet, billboard, or a (set of) computer file(s), and makes it much easier to find out, for example, whether a transport service at a particular time is offered every day at that time, and if not, on which days; with a journey planner one may have to check every day of the year separately for this. Many timetables comprise tables with services shown in columns, and stations or stops on

400-474: A service is scheduled to arrive at and depart from specified locations. It may show all movements at a particular location or all movements on a particular route or for a particular stop. Traditionally this information was provided in printed form, for example as a leaflet or poster. It is now also often available in a variety of electronic formats. In the 2000s, public transport route planners / intermodal journey planners have proliferated and offer traveller

450-657: A spur to Columbia , a Missouri State Park , which runs along the Missouri River for the major portion of its route. In downtown Dallas, a 3.5-mi-long section called the Katy Trail is being converted into a multiuse trail linking Southern Methodist University to the American Airlines Center . In 1997, the segment linking Katy, Texas , to downtown Houston was abandoned, and stripped of rails soon after. The section between Katy and Interstate 610

500-670: A timetable is unnecessary. In some cases public transport operators do not publish public timetables for busy times of day, or they may simply state "services run every 3–5 minutes" (or words to that effect), which is the norm for buses in some cities such as Hong Kong even during off-peak hours. A monthly timetable book of major trains, some bus and ferry services in Europe. A bi-monthly timetable book of major trains, and some bus and ferry services outside Europe, ceased December 2010. A monthly air timetable book published by OAG (Official Airline Guide), and covers all airlines and airports in

550-724: A very thick timetable book, was published but its contents are now available on the Deutsche Bahn website and CD ROM. Covers most trains. See Timetables for the Netherlands . In Switzerland timetables change happens only once a year in December all over Switzerland for any kind of public transportation means; major changes even happens only every second year on odd years. A large annual publication consisting of all Swiss railways, funiculairs, most lake and river boats, cableways, Swiss PostBus, and all other country buses timetables. All online timetables provide information for

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600-679: A year in English and Hindi. The first regularly published timetable ( Japanese : 時刻表 , Hepburn : jikokuhyō ) appeared in 1894, published by a private company. By the time of the nationalization of Japanese railways in 1906, three competing timetables were being published and it was decided that only one official timetable should be offered to the public. Five thousand copies of the first official timetable were published in January 1915. In 2010, two printed national timetables were available; one published by JTB Corporation and one published by

650-761: The EMD SW/SC/NW series of locomotives. This was the only end-cab RS-3m built. In 1975, the Green Bay and Western Railroad started rebuilding their four RS-3 units numbers 306, 307, 308 & 309. They lowered the nose and raised the long hood for the Alco 251e 2,000 hp engines. These rebuilds are called RS-20s. The Delaware and Hudson Railway had eight RS3u locomotives that were rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen between December 1975 and March 1976. They received ALCO 12-251C prime movers, boosting horsepower from 1,600 to 2,000 hp (1,200 to 1,500 kW). M-K raised

700-575: The European Rail Timetable . From 1981 to 2010, Cook also produced a similar bi-monthly Overseas volume covering the rest of the world, and some of that content was moved into the European Timetable in 2011. A timetable can be produced dynamically, on request, for a particular journey on a particular day around a particular time (see journey planner , below), or in a timetable that gives an overview of all services in

750-772: The Interstate Commerce Commission . The merging and restructuring of railroads during the 1980s had cost the Katy much overhead traffic, and it had been seeking a merger partner. On December 1, 1989, the Katy was merged into the MoPac, which is now part of the Union Pacific Railroad system. In the " rails to trails " program, much of the Missouri track line has been adapted for use as the Katy Trail State Park , including

800-599: The Neosho Valley . The Katy portion of the former UP Southern Branch, which had begun building from Fort Riley just north of Junction City, Kansas, was in a heated competition for the prize. On June 6, 1870, Katy workers laid the first rails across the Kansas border, winning the race. Congress' promised land grants were never made, as the courts overturned the grants because the land was in Indian Territory and

850-529: The Rail Delivery Group . It closely resembles Network Rail's former timetable book, which ceased publication in 2007, but PDF timetable files are on its website. It appears twice per year: Until 1974 each region of British Rail published its own timetable. The first Great Britain timetable started on 4 May 1974. Prior to that the only joint publication between regions had been a publication of 30 principal passenger services from 1962, following

900-810: The Transportation News Company/Kotsu Shimbunsha , itself owned by all constituent companies of the Japan Railways Group (barring the RTRI ) and SoftBank . These thick books - the February 2009 edition of the JTB timetable, for example, contains 1152 pages - are published every month and cover all stations and trains of JR and private railways, as well as long-distance bus, ferry and air services. For frequent JR urban lines, subway trains, private railways and urban buses, only summary timetables are shown. In 2009,

950-608: The European train timetables are amended. There are seldom major changes to important routes, but the change allows for alterations to international services and for seasonal variation. Currently the dates for the European train timetable changes are usually the Sunday of the second weekend in June and in December. In the months leading up to the changeover date booking will be restricted as some railway operators are sometimes late loading in

1000-630: The Katy, in a joint venture with the St. Louis – San Francisco Railway (popularly known as the Frisco ), operated the Texas Special from St. Louis to Dallas, Ft. Worth, and San Antonio. It sported rail cars with names including Sam Houston , Stephen F. Austin , David Crockett , and James Bowie after prominent men of the state. The city of Parsons was at the crossroads of the mainlines to St. Louis , Kansas City , and south to Oklahoma, so it

1050-801: The MK&;T acquired the Union Pacific Railway, Southern Branch (est. 1865) and its 182 miles (293 km) of track in Kansas. At the time of its incorporation, consolidations were also made with the Labette & Sedalia Railway Co. and the Neosho Valley & Holden Railway Co.; MK&T also acquired the Tebo and Neosho Railroad , the St. Louis & Santa Fe Railroad Co., and the Hannibal & Central Missouri Railroad Co. Combined with

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1100-489: The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad: Public transport timetable A public transport timetable (also timetable and North American English schedule ) is a document setting out information on public transport service times. Both public timetables to assist passengers with planning a trip and internal timetables to inform employees exist. Typically, the timetable will list the times when

1150-707: The Port of Galveston and its ocean-going shipping on the Gulf of Mexico . A Katy train was robbed by the Dalton Gang on July 14, 1892, at Adair, Oklahoma , in what was then Indian Territory. The gang got away after a gun battle. In 1896, as a publicity stunt set up by William Crush , the Katy crashed two locomotives head-on, pulling loaded trains, at a site that came to be known thereafter as Crush, Texas . The collision occurred before more than 40,000 spectators, three of whom died (and several were injured) by debris from

1200-550: The UP Southern Branch, these small, newly built railroads formed the foundation on which the Katy built. In the late 1890s, a subsidiary once called the Missouri-Kansas-Eastern railroad was established to run from existing MKT rails approaching Kansas City into St Louis via the Missouri River basin . Congress had passed acts promising land grants to the first railroad to reach the Kansas border via

1250-443: The addition of "am/A" or "pm/P" or with pm times in bold , is more often used). If services run at the same minutes past each hour for part of the day, the legend "and at the same minutes past each hour" or similar wording may be shown instead of individual timings. Other information may be shown, often at the tops of the columns, such as day(s) of operation, validity of tickets for each service, whether seat reservations are required,

1300-541: The black cab/orange hood paint scheme. The remaining 21 New Haven RS-3's were never rebuilt. There were RS-3ms working for the Penn Central Transportation Company . These locomotives were called the "DeWitt Geeps". One of the locomotives, PC #9950, was rebuilt with the short hood removed and left with what is known by railfans as an end-cab. A cab type similar to that of the S1 , HH Series , or

1350-481: The convenience that the computer program looks at all timetables so the traveller doesn't need to. A "timetable" may also refer to the same information in abstract form, not specifically published, e.g. "A new timetable has been introduced". The first compilation of railway timetables in the United Kingdom was produced in 1839 by George Bradshaw . Greater speeds and the need for more accurate timings led to

1400-609: The development of the internet and electronic systems, conventional thick paper timetables are gradually being replaced by website searching or CD-ROM style timetables, and the publication of comprehensive printed timetables is generally decreasing. Transport schedule data itself is increasingly being made available to the public digitally, as specified in the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) format. In many modern public transport systems, timetables and rostering are generated by computer, with

1450-586: The exploding boilers. Ragtime composer and pianist Scott Joplin , who was performing in the area at the time, commemorated the event in his piano piece, "The Great Crush Collision March" (which he dedicated to the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railway). The Katy acquired the Beaver, Meade and Englewood Railroad in 1931. This trackage, like the length between Altus and Forgan, was abandoned in January 1973. From 1915 until January 4, 1959,

1500-586: The introduction of standard railway time in Great Western Railway timetables in 1840, when all their trains were scheduled to "London time", i.e. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which replaced solar time . Until railway time was introduced, local times for London, Birmingham , Bristol and Manchester could differ by as much as 16 to 20 minutes; in India and North America these differences could be 60 minutes or more. The European Rail Timetable ,

1550-556: The long hood six inches (152 mm), moved the dynamic brake to behind the cab and cut-down the short hood. As of 2021, rebuilt RS-3s can be found in museums, on shortlines and as industrial switchers. Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad ( reporting mark MKT ) was a Class I railroad company in the United States, with its last headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Established in 1865 under

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1600-840: The name Union Pacific Railroad (UP), Southern Branch, it came to serve an extensive rail network in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri. In 1988, it merged with the Missouri Pacific Railroad ; today, it is part of UP. In the 1890s, the MKT was commonly referred to as "the K-T", because for a time it was the Kansas–Texas division of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and "KT" was its abbreviation in timetables as well as its stock exchange symbol. This soon evolved into

1650-639: The new data (between several weeks and a few days before the change). However, in Switzerland timetable changes only happen once a year in December. In Switzerland major changes happen only in odd years. One of the most comprehensive European-wide timetable information is provided by the electronic timetable search engine of German Railways Deutsche Bahn (information is also available in Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Polish, Spanish and Turkish). The same information, but differently presented, one also find on

1700-546: The nickname " the Katy ". The Katy was the first railroad to enter Texas from the north. Eventually, the Katy's core system linked Parsons , Emporia , Fort Scott , Junction City , Olathe , and Kansas City , Kansas ; Kansas City , Joplin , Columbia , McKittrick , Jefferson City , and St. Louis , Missouri ; Tulsa , Wagoner; and Oklahoma City , Oklahoma ; Dallas , Fort Worth , Waco , Temple , Austin , San Antonio , Houston , and Galveston , Texas . An additional mainline between Fort Worth and Salina, Kansas ,

1750-635: The online timetables by the Swiss Federal Railways (in English, German, French, and Italian) and the timetable by the Czech Ministry of Transport (in Czech, and - however not to every detail - in English and German). This is a free timetable leaflet distributed in express train and has information about the departure, arrival time of the train and connecting services. For many years the “Kursbuch Gesamtausgabe” ("complete timetable"),

1800-489: The operators specifying the required operating span, minimum frequencies, route length/time and other such factors. Design of the schedule may aim to make times memorable for passengers, through the use of clock-face scheduling — services departing at regular intervals, at the same times every hour. This is less likely to apply at peak times, when the priority is optimum utilisation of available vehicles and staff. In large cities services may be so frequent that consulting

1850-464: The rows of the table. There will often be separate tables for each direction of travel, and often separate (pairs of) tables for working days, weekends and holidays. Generally the times shown against each station or stop will be the departure time, except for the last stop of the service which will be the arrival time. The left hand column will list the stations in route order, and the other columns are arranged from left to right in chronological order. If

1900-561: The same timetable as the printed Official Timetable plus all Swiss city transit systems and networks as well as most railways in Europe . The user interface as well as all Swiss railways stations, and bus, boat, cable car stops are transparently available in German, French, Italian, and English spelling. Published by The Stationery Office (the official UK Government publishers), and contains information, according to its title page, "with permission of Network Rail and obtained under licence

1950-421: The service is scheduled to wait, both arrival and departure times might be shown on consecutive rows. If a slow service is overtaken by a fast service, the slow service will often occupy more than one column, to keep the times in order. There may be additional rows showing connecting services. In most parts of the world times are shown using the 24-hour clock (although in the United States the 12-hour clock, with

2000-720: The steam generator but got twin sealed beam headlights. #533, 551, & 559 were rebuilt in October 1959. Type III — The steam generator and water tank were removed and got a concrete block instead. Headlights were replaced with a twin sealed beam headlights. They all received a raised area around the stack. Units rebuilt in early 1962 - #517, 520, 523, 527, 528, 534, 535, 537, 538, 545, 548, 557, & 558. The New Haven RR itself rebuilt two units at their Lamberton Street Shop, numbers #542 & 543. These units kept their steam generators and single-bulb headlights but were not upgraded to nose-mounted Multiple Unit capability. Repainted in

2050-536: The times that services depart from that location, sometimes with other information such as destinations and stopping conditions. Again, there may be separate lists for different days of the week. There may be a separate list for each line/direction, or a combined chronological list (as in the picture). In parts of mainland Europe train departures are listed on a yellow poster, and arrivals on a white poster. These posters are placed at entrances to stations and on platforms. Dynamic electronic displays in stations may be at

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2100-427: The type of vehicle used (e.g. for heritage railways and airline timetables ), the availability of on-board facilities such as refreshments, availability of classes, and a service number. Timetables with services arranged in rows of tables and stops or stations in columns are less common but otherwise similar to timetables with services in columns. Some timetables, particularly at railway stations and bus stops , list

2150-561: The world. The official timetable book, published twice a year. Published twice a year by China Railway Publishing, in Chinese . The former timetable includes all trains, the latter fast express trains only. Published irregularly (last January 2015) by Duncan Peattie, in English. It includes all trains shown in the Chinese Railway Passenger Train Timetable, but not all stations. Published once

2200-577: Was added in the 1980s after the collapse of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad ; this line was operated as the Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas Railroad (OKKT). Former Rock Island trackage rights acquired by the Katy also gave it access to Lincoln and Omaha , Nebraska and Council Bluffs , Iowa . At the end of 1970, MKT operated 2,623 miles (4,221 km) of road and 3,765 miles (6,059 km) of track. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway

2250-483: Was built at Waco , Texas. The Waco Shops were established in 1910 in a section called Bellmead and renamed as the Warden Shops during World War II. Upon transitioning to diesel power, the Warden Shops were closed and diesel maintenance work was concentrated mainly at Parsons. On August 12, 1988, the Missouri Pacific Railroad (MoPac) and its owner, Union Pacific Corporation , purchased the Katy with approval from

2300-458: Was chosen as the first heavy repair shop site. In 1905 the shops were expanded with a new machine shop 860 by 153 feet in size, blacksmith shop, and storehouse. The primary freight car repair shops were located in Sedalia, Missouri . After extending the mainline into Texas, shops were established at the new center of the system in Denison, Texas , however, these were downgraded when a new shop site

2350-624: Was considered middle-aged. Twenty one rebuilds were done by Alco in three groups. All the Alco rebuilds had the black cab/orange hood paint scheme and were able to Multiple Unit aka MU with later engines. Nose MU was added as well. These rebuilds kept the original Alco 244 engines. The New Haven didn't have the problems that other roads did with their 244 engined locos. The first rebuilds: Type I — kept their steam generator, and single bulb reflector headlights; #526 & #529 kept their buffer plates for diaphragms. #518, 526, 529, 549, & 553 were rebuilt May 1958 - June 1958. Type II — kept

2400-572: Was incorporated in May 1870 in Junction City, Kansas . The company received government land grants to build a supply railroad connecting the frontier military posts of Fort Riley , Fort Gibson , and Fort Scott ; and eventually Fort Worth , as well as establishing connections with other railroads that served Fort Leavenworth , Fort Wallace and Fort Smith — but its broader ambitions were to connect Chicago and New Orleans. Upon its incorporation,

2450-590: Was purchased by the Texas Department of Transportation in 1998 for the expansion of Katy Freeway . The line that went into Houston was purchased by the city's Parks and Recreation Department. In 2009, it was adapted and paved as the Heights Bike Trail. In Tulsa, Oklahoma , the 8.1 miles (13.0 km) Katy trail follows an old corridor of the railroad between the northwest edge of downtown Tulsa and its suburb of Sand Springs . As part of

2500-587: Was the property of the Indian tribes. The Katy continued its push southward, laying track through the territory and reaching Texas in 1872, acquiring other small railroads while extending its reach to Dallas in 1886, Waco in 1888, Houston in April 1893, and to San Antonio in 1901. When the Katy railroad reached Houston, its joint ownership of the Galveston, Houston and Henderson Railroad gave it immediate access to

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