Steve,
Here was the line up:
Trains expected between North River and Brookfield between 620
am and 1201 pm June 22 1967
No 55 Eng 9977 left Macon 603 am
No 7 Eng 9942A Extra 9942A West
Left Ely 557 am
Leave Lakenan 620 am
Local Extra 940 West Leave Callao 630 am
No 71 Eng 115 Leave North River 625 am
Pass Card 655 am
Pass Macon 730 am
No 61 Extra 924 West Leave North River 730 am
Pass Card 755am
Pass Macon 825 am
LW 68 Extra 957 East left Lakenan 620 am
No 30 Extra 9923B East Leave Brookfield 700am
Pass Macon 745 am
Pass Card 815 am
LC 70 Extra 167C East leave Brookfield 745 am
Pass Macon 830 am
Pass Card 910 am
My question would be why would the dispatcher list No 7, No 61, LW
68, No 30 and LC 70 from North River to Brookfield with Extra
assignments when these trains did not normally run over this part of
the railroad? Only No 55, No 71 and Local Extra were regular trains
on the North River to Brookfield section. Would not the Extra
designations mean that orders are already out for those trains? It
would seem to be a lot of work and effort for nothing if they were
only planned trains. Your dispatcher insight in this would be
appreciated.
Bill Hirt
On 3/15/2012 10:13 PM, STEVEN HOLDING wrote:
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