Saturday, December 28, 2013

Givens & Druthers III - The Trains

The Southern Railway Carolina Division Employee Timetable #13, dated March 31, 1974 showed 18 trains on the S-Line. These included two passenger trains, which only ran on Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday, two rail-highway (piggy-back and autorack) trains, two unit coal trains, eight freight trains, and four local trains, of which only two ran on the modeled segment of the railroad. The passenger, rail-highway, and unit trains and one of the westbound freight trains were first class. All other eastbound trains were second class. Westbound trains were third class. Below are excerpts of the timetable schedule: