member who is good at it, and he stepped up and started.
Rick had done it previously. He stepped up, and then slowly
but surely some of us said, okay, I’ll give it a try. The way we
do that is by having an assistant dispatcher.
“You sit down with one of the experienced ones, watch them,
they school you in how to fill out the warrants. We operate
on a warrant system that is transcribed across the radio to the
conductor or engineer. So it’s like, when you’re ready you take
it on yourself without help.
“We’ve been able to increase to about 10 people who can
dispatch.”
Rick:
“Going into phase 2 with more of the mainline running
attracted more guys into dispatching, because phase 1 was
Columbia Cascade &Western -
13: Each freight car has its own card, and traffic is
generated by assigning waybills. A limited number of
“spot cards” regulates the flow of cars from Albany,
Lebanon, and Bend to destinations on the modeled
part of the railroad.
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MRH-Feb 2013
