Shared Materials
Station Agent Materials
Crew Materials
Dispatcher & Operator Materials
Accident Photos & Reports
Materials used exclusively or primarily by station agents to ship and receive freight, as well as book and manage passenger travel.
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Officers, Agents & Stations Books list all stations on the NP at the date of publication, alphabetically, so that unfamiliar stations may be located; and also geographically by division and subdivision, so that nearby stations may be found. Other unusual company information is included, such as the locations of all company surgeons. |
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Comprehensive document for the work of a station agent, with sections on Bills of Lading, Demurrage, Diversion and Re-consignment, Yard Office Reports, Handling Car Equipment, Interchange, and NP Employment. Includes example NP forms for Wheel Reports, Car Cards, Waybills, Switching Orders, etc. |
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Contains many kinds of interesting operations data and instructions. Includes some hopper car assignments to customers. |
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Comprehensive list of industries at each station reached by the NP system. The list denotes which railroads served each industry at the time of publication. |
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Plain-text, tab-delimited version of the 1967 NP Industry List, suitable for use in NMRA OpSIG tools. |
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1970 Hopper Assignments |
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System-wide reports from January and February, 1970 for non-covered hopper assignments and covered hopper assignments, respectively. |
Materials used exclusively or primarily by engine crews and train crews.
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Describe each numbered train in the NP system during 1968-1969. Compiled by Steve Volek. |
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Wheel reports were prepared by freight conductors to describe each car in a consist, its destination, and contents. This list has is copyrighted 2006 by Allen Reuter, who transcribed the material. The original document was provided by Dick Eisfeller. This copyright reserves all commercial rights, but permits the free sharing and non-commercial use of this document in either digital or printed format. Allen made a best effort to transcribe the original document, putting in question marks for illegible items, and entered comments on what those items might have been. Also included is a document by Chris Frisell that described how wheel reports were created by NP conductors and how they can be used by prototype modelers to improve their train consists and overall modeling. |
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Coal dock locations and capacities on the Northern Pacific along with selected correspondences regarding coaling facilities. Researched and written by James Dick. |
Materials used exclusively or primarily by dispatchers and telegraphers.
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Train Dispatcher's Manuals |
Supplemental rules issued to train dispatchers which detailed how to issue train orders, use of train order books, clearance records, train sheets, and operations in centralized traffic control territory. These manuals were updated with each new issue of the consolidated operating code. Fewer than 50% have been scanned so far. An inventory of what all is available is included. |
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The official record of all train orders issued by train dispatchers. The dispatcher recorded the train order using ink and then underlined the words when repeated by the telegrapher or other employee. The back of the train order book contains clearance records, which recorded the number of orders addressed to each train at specified stations. Also recorded is the time that a train order was made complete and the time that a clearance was acknowledged. Fewer than 50% have been scanned so far. An inventory of what all is available is included. |
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The official record of daily train movements for a defined territory. Dispatchers record information on both scheduled and extra trains. The information includes the engineer and conductor, train number, lead locomotive number, and the times of arrivals, departures, or passings as reported by operators and agents at each location. For each subdivision, the stations are listed in the center of the sheet. There are approximately 8,000 individual train sheets from roughly 285 months. Fewer than 50% have been scanned so far. An inventory of what all is available is included. |
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Instructions governing the manifesting and movement of manifested cars on the NP. Issued August 1, 1929. |
Accident photos and reports from across the NP system. Note: We are currently working on rounding up accident reports and will add an entry when we have enough to publish.
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Sequences of accident & wreck photos assembled from various photo collections. Note: This category of photos is under construction. Individual scans may be purchased through the NPRHA Company Store. |