I got an early birthday present from my sister this weekend... she picked up a B&O timetable and a certificate of deposit, and put them in a shadow box for me... IMG_1136 by BGTwinDad, on Flickr The CD was split among 7 people, and had a 4-1/2% interest rate on it for 5 years. The $15,000 face value would be about $242,000 in 2010 dollars (adjusted for inflation, not for CAGR), a pretty significant amount of money in the middle of the Depression. I was not aware that the railroads issued Certificates of Deposit...
It's dated October 31, 1965, and is for the Akron-Chicago Divison. I also snagged a Chessie System Ohio Division timetable from 1977. I haven't looked inside the B&O one, but the owner of the Chessie one made several notes, highlighted a few things, and put a folder tab at the top of the first page for each Subdivision.
Ah, one of those timetables! Sweet. I was thinking a passenger timetable. Slick and fun to see the advertising, but obviously an incomplete picture of what the line was hauling at the time.
