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I wonder who will be controlling the Bert line from Galion to Columbus? If IE gets that too, then that is going to be one overworked dispatcher. Thanks for reminding me about that. The DS that night said that side would be added to the IE desk. Aren't the Indy desks basically unchanged (to an exten...

Indy is laying off dispatchers, and while Indys extra board is about 3 times the size of ours it does make me nervious. I was listening to the radio the other night on my way home and heard Q218 talk to the IE north of Findlay (Ohio). The dispatcher said that they are abolishing a desk and the IE d...

"Hamler is where the CSX Chicago Line (CTC, 60+ TPD) crosses the Indiana & Ohio Ry (CTC, 2 TPD). CSX: CSX runs mostly manifest freights through here, but intermodals are also frequent. If you visit on a Sunday you can usually catch Q345, which interchanges grain cars with the I&O. Not trying to sid...

As I have said for the past year now, I finally have tickets on Amtrak from ARB to CHI on the 29th of march, what would be good channels to have for Chicago in-general? I plan on annoying Holly, and everybody around me on the train with the scanner, and the crew calling signals :twisted: Where do y...

The thing I'd like to do with TD3 is try to simulate breakdowns, derailments, late trains, broken trains, bad signals, etc (all the fun stuff!) as authentically as possible, but I have no idea what the "chance" settings should be. Any ideas? If you're talking about Train Dispatcher, go here: http:/...

Last I knew it still ran on Thursdays with UPS trailers.

I heard that the diamonds needed to be put in ASAP.

Here's my pictures:

http://railroadfan.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=926

Those numbers are probably from Toledo Jct. (Near Mansfield, OH) where the the line split off of the PRR Chicago mainline.

It's just a regular diamond.


This is the diamond at Walkerton, IN.

http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=870061
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=870062
http://rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=870063

The diamond is going in today. I will try to get some pictures. I'm suprised CSX is not using my yard for parking.

I thought that the bridge that burned near Cecil was still out of service, which I thought was one of the reasons that CSX pulled the diamond.

Greg from FC Tower

I was east of Bryan yesterday afternoon, and saw/heard about 8 trains in about a 20-minute span. Other than a EB coal train in the siding at Archbold, traffic seemed to be moving along nicely.

It will probably be fully be re-opened in the next couple days or so. Current reroutes are going north on the C&O at Fostoria to Walbridge, and taking the Toledo Sub down to Deshler, and vice versa. Westbound on 2 main was Q375, eastbound coal on 1 main was U994.

BD is now IP, and still at channel 94.

Makes me want to go to Calumet City and apply.

I've seen Q324 on several occasions the past couple weeks. It usually goes through Deshler in the morning.

Some additions/corrections to the list (bold being corrections) . Greg Frequencies 160.320Mhz - CSX CR Dispatcher in Jacksonville, FL (F Tower South) 160.635Mhz - CSX RL Dispatcher in Calumet City, IL (F Tower North and the Toledo Terminal) 161.520Mhz - CSX BD Dispatcher in Jacksonville, FL (Deshler...

from http://www.midwestrailfan.com/garrettsub "RM Dispatcher: 160.290 (AAR Channel 12) " It is still 84 161.370, same as before the changeover. Also, Q160 has not run since the beginning of March. Q160 traffic has since been put on Q110. Q324 has not run for a while, accroding to http://www.railroad...