Bob
I wish I could help as this was the first job I worked as a Dispatcher.
Alas as a BN dispatcher in April of '74. The Photo on Page 47 of Mike
Spoor's Vol. 2 is the C&I as used in Aurora. When the job moved to House 9
the site of the original East End Machine(GRS NX Style machine) in 1966
along with the CTC installation on the Mainline(Aurora-Galesburg) a new
WABCO machine which matched the Mainline machine was installed and the
control moved from Aurora to House 9. Ed DeRoun has my slide of the machine
when it was in Cicero. In Dec of '83 it was moved to the South Henderson
St office in Galesburg. When it was replaced by computer in '92 a
dispatcher who had grown up in Thompson got it saved for movement there.
The Room in House 9 was the third one in from the east end of the building.
East End was first Mainline second then the C&I. It was the first room you
entered when coming in from the normal door(Not the Fire Door which was
added to the east end of the building) All the rooms had acoustic tile(tile
was the same as in Photo((may have been the same tile))) from the chair rail
up and on the ceiling. It was a dingy white due to smoking in the office at
the time. Most rooms had Huge lockers for us to hid our coats and boots
during the winter(Illinois not Texas)There was a metal desk behind the chair
so there was just room to fit between the two desks. The desk was used when
the chief was in the room. Other purpose, other then eating lunch will not
be discussed. One year the room began to leak and a sheet of plastic was
hung above the machine( Dad's Pad) (Daddy was the 2nd trick DS for years.)
Gramps worked third and still kept his house and would DH up along the
Mississippi River every weekend(working on the railroad weekends don't often
follow calendar weekends) Poohise work first and used whiteout on the
machine to show where the grades were. The last time I worked the job was
just before it was computerized on overtime (My regular job was the Mainline
at the time)
Steve Holding
2nd trick Union Ave Dispatcher(Off sick)
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From: Bob Rees <reventures_61061@y...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 9:23 PM
Subject: [BRHSlist] Help needed
> Marion McKee at McKee lumber in Thompson Illinois, needs some help
> with the dispatcher panels from the Savana tower. The four
> dispatcher cabinets for the C&I have been donated to the Thompson
> Railroad Depot Museum, and she needs someone who knows something
> about them to set up a static display.
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