When catching the Ottumwa Div. in Cicero third trick you worked all the
trackage from Galesburg to Pacific Jct. and KC to St. Joe PLUS all the
branch lines. To forstall the date and Number problems as Daily orders and
lineup numbers all started with a new number series each day. I would start
my Form Y orders(Daily watch out for gang orders((now Form B))), running
orders and lineups at Galesburg on Monday. On Tuesday I would start at
Pacific Jct so the first gang, local, or maintainer out side of the ends
would not get the same number order or lineup each day. It would ruin
everyones day as in the rock trains case.
sjh
----- 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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