Railroads of the past can be full of mystery, but it doesn’t have to be that way. There are numerous paths, some fruitful and ...

But it wasn’t the timetable’s fault. A train timetable is a best-case scenario in a script full of alternate endings. A train timetable takes more liberty with time and speed than Einstein.

Many people would assume that collecting railroad timetables as a hobby is as interesting as reading a telephone book from cover to cover or watching an unplugged television in the dark. What&#8217… ...

American passenger rail service is booming; Amtrak has set ten ridership records in the past eleven years. But the timetable, long synonymous with rail travel in this country and elsewhere, has ...

Fans of now-rare printed railroad timetables are showing their excitement for the monthly European Rail Timetable, which compiles on paper the routes and times of 50,000 trains across Europe.

What I enjoyed most about reading the OAG’s railroad-style timetable wasn’t the flight times, and later, the on-time performance percentage, but the kind of aircraft used on each flight.