It believe "Doc" OS'd the double header at Mendota on Sunday Only
(Thundering Skies)...Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Decker" <mdecker@g...>
To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 11:59 AM
Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Re: OS - Was Suggested Reading
> Hi Folks:
>
> Re: "OS". I've always understood it to mean "On Sheet", where the
Operator
> was reporting to the Dispatcher that a train had arrived, and/or departed.
> When they ran the CTC through Edgemont, we started to call the section of
> track between the opposing absolute signals (where the switch "generally"
is
> located) "The OS"....referring to the old "On Sheet" report. We still use
> "OS" for the area between the absolutes, as in: "I'm just going to pull
the
> motors into the OS at 584.4, and back into DC-3, I don't need permission
for
> a reverse move over a power switch".
>
> When the Orin line was still train order territory, we had a Register Book
> at Black Thunder Jct. Trains arriving and departing Black Thunder or
Jacobs
> Ranch Mines would have running orders to/from the Jct. (the rest of the
way
> into the mines is Rule 105 territory), and would have to register in and
out
> in the book, which was kept in a little wooden shed with the block phone.
> Your running order would usually be something like: "Eng. 5500, run Extra,
> Donkey Creek to Black Thunder Jct. and after Extra 5500 West of June 30
has
> arrived, return to Donkey Creek" Since you were the Extra 5500 West, of
the
> specified date, you knew you had arrived, but you still had to register,
> account you might die in there loading coal and the relieving crew needed
to
> know that they didn't have to wait for their own train to arrive. Also,
> since both mines would hold more than one train, you had to register in
and
> out in case there was another train already in there that had an "after
> arrival" on you.
>
> BTW...a Register Book mis-reading led to the head-on collision under the
> Denver-Boulder turnpike on the C&S a few years ago. The same motor was
> being used every day on a rock train turn job. The outbound freight had a
> new brakeman, and he neglected to notice that the turn that had arrived
was
> the previous day's when he made the Register Check, and reported to the
> Engineer that the rock train had arrived.....it hadn't.
>
> Later,
>
> Mike Decker
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> To: <BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com>
> > Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:23:25 -0800 (PST)
> > From: John Mitchell <cbqrr47@y...>
> > Subject: Re: OS - Was Suggested Reading
> >
> > Not the "train register". That was something
> > altogether differant. A train register was a document
> > kept at certain stations,(usually at originating or
> > terminating points, junctions, end of two main tracks,
> > etc.) where train crews could check on the arrivals
> > and departures of trains and what signals they were
> > displaying.
> >
> > John D. Mitchell, Jr.
> > --- Bob Webber <rswebber@c...> wrote:
> > > " "OS" are the initials for On the Sheets, a
> > > reference to what station
> > > agents did to notify the train dispatcher that a
> > > train had passed his/her
> > > station and been noted on the train register."
>
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