Up the Creek Column - 10
South Jackson Gazette
Unwarranted movement of trains!
Patrons of the South Jackson
Tavern are abuzz with the lat-
est news from the railroad.
According to lots of rail-
road employees it seems the
BC&SJ, which has for a num-
ber of years relied upon track
warrants to dispatch trains,
has begun the process of
switching to a newer system.
Explained Horace Fithers,
authority on nearly every-
thing, "The crews on the rail-
road sure were getting fed up
having to wait and wait all
the time fer the dadgum dis-
patcher to get them their next
trackwarrant. There they'dbe,
cooling their heels and perus-
ing the latest S.J. Gazette and
nuthing was comin' in on the
radio. Making it worse, usu-
ally they'dknowthereweren't
no traffic ahead of them an'
the delays were only that high
falutin' dispacherator being
dang slow gittin them their
next authority, again."
A clipping from the
"So when railroad manage-
ment announced they were
going to try a new system
where the crews ain't depen-
din' on the DS to tell 'emwhen
to come and go each and
every time, well it jest brought
smiles out most everywhere!"
Charlie Comstock, superin-
tendent of nearly everything,
commented when reached,
"We believe the new system
represents the ultimate in
railroad operation technol-
ogy, and besides, with all the
radios turned on it got so loud
trackside you couldn't hear
yourself think. And now the
crews can demonstrate a bit
more of that perfessionalism
they keep talking about."
This reporter certainly hopes
things work out as well as
planned and everything runs
more smoothly.
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