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Lineups were more like a funny paper. A lot of fluff and not much substance. Quite often Lincoln and or Northtown would not give adequate figures as to what they would run so the Dispatcher had to just guess and add extras to cover just in case to cover the holes in the figures from the yards.
Lineups were used by track and signal people to give them some idea of what was coming and would have to clear the times of the trains on the lineup. If the yards would run a train off the lineup figure it was the dispatchers job to give out orders to keep the train within the bounds of the lineup or resort to a "Rabbit-Hunting Order" Retired Dispatcher and loving it Steve in SC From: wdhirt <whirt@sbcglobal.net> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thu, March 15, 2012 10:22:37 PM Subject: [CBQ] Hannibal Trains Orders I just posted a file with train orders and forms for Hannibal in June 1967. Take a look at the Track Operators line ups in the file. The June 30 line up is typical for the Brookfield sub. However, the June 22 line up shows what happens when there was some sort of problem on the east-west Iowa main. __._,_.___
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