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A chronology would be a massive undertaking, but would be really helpful to researchers. Have you given any thought to how it might be structured? A spreadsheet (Excel) might be the easiest format, with a few people actually making changes that were submitted by everyone else who might wish to participate.
It would be important for each date to be backed up with some reference — a citation in a newspaper, a timetable issue, etc. There have been a few generalized efforts in the past — such as a chronology of corporate history, but integrating that information with other material such as track abandonments, train offs, division expansion or consolidation, etc., would indeed be helpful to future researchers.
Bill Pollard
