LordGhee Posted November 16, 2008 Report Share Posted November 16, 2008 Sirs, I am creating a scenario for my friends that are running a 1907, pulp game. I have a sears catalog so clothing, guns ect are priced. but I need help with cost of travel. dose any one have information for ship and rail tickets cost for England USA other during 1880 1900 1920 1930 thanks Lord Ghee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted November 17, 2008 Report Share Posted November 17, 2008 Re: Help with cost of travel. Prices of trains in Australia in 1899- http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/3234052?searchTerm=train+ticket+prices Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordGhee Posted November 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 17, 2008 Re: Help with cost of travel. so 3s to travel local in western side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legendsmiths Posted November 17, 2008 Report Share Posted November 17, 2008 Re: Help with cost of travel. Have you seen Pulp Hero? There's your answer. Don't reinvent the wheel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordGhee Posted November 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 Re: Help with cost of travel. Well in 1930 teachers made 1200 in 1905 300 (or 40 dollars a month when working) Twenty years change things and since we are using sears catalog reprint as a base the need for info congress 8500 in 30 7500 in !907 (they got a pay raise). Lord Ghee oh found out in Va. 3 cents a mile in a court case! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Posted November 25, 2008 Report Share Posted November 25, 2008 Re: Help with cost of travel. Pulp HERO, page 144 onward talks in detail about transportation costs. Pages 334-338 cover the costs of a number of items. Use the lists of costs, compared to the costs you know of, to get a ballpark estimate of inflation/rise in costs. Apply the inverse to page 144 ff cost of transportation to guess the cost of transportation in ~1907. BTW, this isn't a telegram; you aren't paying for each word. Complete sentences would be a lot easier to understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barton Posted November 30, 2008 Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 Re: Help with cost of travel. Also you can use the Pulp Hero book's prices and go to the following site http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl it is a cpi (inflation calculator) and calculate based the cost (assuming NO change in the base price of good/service between 1913 and 1935). It only goes to 1913, sorry. A dollar in 1913 is roughly equal due to inflation to $1.38 in 1935. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted June 7, 2009 Report Share Posted June 7, 2009 Re: Help with cost of travel. There's a price guide on the site Dirty 30s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTaylor Posted June 7, 2009 Report Share Posted June 7, 2009 Re: Help with cost of travel. I'm not sure how much this will help you but there's a really handy online resource that converts money from different time periods, adjusting it for inflation. So you could estimate costs based on that: a train ticket costing x today costs y in z time period, for example. The Inflation Calculator is pretty easy to use and is a handy tool for historical games. It goes back to 1800. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordGhee Posted June 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 7, 2009 Re: Help with cost of travel. thanks for the site Lord Ghee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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