JTC

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Wed Oct 4 01:23:39 EDT 2000


On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 brathke at juno.com wrote:

> I also remember the low key, low budget,  public schedule cards.  They
> weren't actually "cards" - they were 8-1/2X11" mimeographed sheets of
> paper.  I donated a pile of these schedule sheets to PTM when I moved to
> Chicago in 1983. 
> 
> Okay, who will be the first to ask what "mimeographed" is (was)?

Am I the youngest here? (27 since May)

I have a few schedules which as I recall I got from Gary Dillon.

> I'll take you back to an even older form of printing used by JTC.  In
> 1957, I got a route map from JTC.  It was an 
> 8-1/2X11" sheet of paper printed in purple ink  on a spirit duplicator. 
> The routes were hand drawn.  The map shows the single track bridge on the
> Franklin line, with a note that it will be double tracked at the end of
> 1957.  
> 
> I'll scan this map and will e-mail a copy to anyone who's interested. 
> Let me know.

I'd like a copy. 

-D





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