[froindt]

I'm curious, what's your interest in the train schedules?

One day at an antique shop, I came across a book from ~1910 which had hundreds of pages of annual reports from railroads with many metrics we'd expect to see in the 10-K reports public companies file.

The book was published annually, but had much of its data in tables with grouped headers and cells, which could make automated OCR-ing with a good (useful) end result challenging.

I think it'd be interesting to map out the Railroad consolidation, track all their financial metrics over time, and do some level of forensic accounting to see if/which companies probably had funny business going on.

[ant6n]

I’ve got European rail schedules, which gives an indication of historical travel patterns. Specifically looking into the development of overnight travel.