I have discussed previously the locomotive assignment booklets used for a number of years by Southern Pacific, and commented about how to use such a booklet for choosing my 1953 locomotives to model (you can see it at: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2011/04/choosing-1953-locomotive-roster.html ). But I didn’t say much in that post about the assignment booklets themselves. I want to say more in this post.
The assignment booklets were used by Southern Pacific to keep track of the locomotives assigned to each train, and to keep track of the locomotives assigned to each train’s crew. The booklets were used by the train crews to keep track of their own assignments, and by the train dispatchers to keep track of the locomotives assigned to each train. The booklets were also used by the train maintenance crews to keep track of the locomotives assigned to
each train, and to keep track of the maintenance work that needed to be done on each locomotive. The booklets were used by Southern Pacific to keep track of the locomotives assigned to each train, and to keep track of the locomotives assigned to each train’s crew. The booklets were used by the train crews to keep track of their own assignments, and by the train dispatchers to keep track of the locomotives assigned to each train. The booklets


The assignment booklets were used by Southern Pacific to keep track of the locomotives assigned to each train, and to keep track of the locomotives assigned to each train’s crew. The booklets were used by the train crews to keep track of their own assignments, and by the train dispatchers to keep track of the locomotives assigned to each train. The booklets were also used by the train maintenance crews to keep track of the locomotives assigned to
 each train, and to keep track of the maintenance work that needed to be done on each locomotive. The booklets were used by Southern Pacific to keep track of the locomotives assigned to each train, and to keep track of the locomotives assigned to each train’s crew. The booklets were used by the train crews to keep track of their own assignments, and by the train dispatchers to keep track of the locomotives assigned to each train. The booklets