Bill has it right except when we had operators they gave the train call to the
DS to be filled in. A call for a train say from No Lacrosse to Cicero would be
written up by the C&I dispatcher(until computers only one man ran St. Croix to
Aurora) and taken into the East End. The slip would lay on the desk until the
train got to Aurora then the East End would enter it on the sheet. The East
End kept a sheet for each shift(3) of the almost six foot long sheets.( I have
a couple) as they had all the passenger train, Freight trains and the transfer
moves. Most times the sheet does show what track the train was on as it was a
means of telling who was where and where they needed to crossover.Not like
today with a CRT screen and the Digicrap(opps DigiCon) lets you know where the
train is. Every time the big boss of the signal dept shows up I tell him I
want my GRS machine back(see PTJ Dec.1988 for Ed DeRouin's article on "Land of
the Burlington's")
On stations with an Operator they would watch the train go by and then OS the
train by. In CTC the Dispatcher would use the CTC machine and write down OS's.
The WABCO machines on the C&I, Mainline and Ottumwa(actually Creston West) had
a graph which used a pen to show when the signal was lined, taken and cleared
and a lot of DS would mark the graph so it showed meets and the like(when
someone ran a red board)
And with modern Technology the jobs I started on 30 years ago now take from 2
to 5 people to dispatch the same territory
sjh
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Hirt
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Re: New file uploaded to CBQ
kohlj@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Thanks, Bill and Steve for all the good info...however, I was talking more
about how to fill the form out! :)
>
Jan,
Actually Steve's article in BB 22 does a good job describing what is on
the dispatchers sheet and deciphering what is on the sheet and why.
However in a nutshell, here is what happens on my model railroad currently:
1. The crew has a call time 30 minutes before the train departs. This is
written on the sheet at the bottom portion in the Time Crew called portion.
2. The crew will call the dispatcher on the phone and give the
dispatcher the train info: motors, number of cars, and way car. The
dispatcher will write this on the sheet along with the Engineer's and
Conductor's name.
3. The dispatcher when ready will give the train a clearance. The train
will report it's departure time from the initial terminal. The
dispatcher writes this on the sheet.
4. At open stations, the train crew will report passing the station and
the dispatcher will mark this on the sheet. If the train makes a stop,
the dispatcher will mark the arrival and departure time for the train at
the station.
5. When the train arrives at the receiving terminal, the dispatcher
marks the time. The crew will then report the time they go off duty.
If you look at Steve's article, there are many other things which are
noted and can be noted on the sheet. There are also other variations
from the Creston sheet Steve wrote about that were due to differences in
the operation or local procedure. For example, Ed DeRouin told me that
on the triple track main line on the Chicago & Aurora division, the
dispatchers marked what track the train used on the sheet. And as I
think Steve mentioned before, Ed said that sheet was 6 foot long to
handle all the train run in a 24 hour period.
Bill Hirt
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