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  • #5623
    benjamintickell53
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    Dispatcher train sheets provide a detailed 24-hour snapshot of a particular section of the railroad, and are helpful from a historical perspective in determining locomotive assignments, traffic patterns and other details. Some train sheets include passenger train consists. Arkansas Division sheets as “late” as December 1966 have passenger consists, but Eastern Division sheets a year later – December 1967 – do not have passenger consists. Was there some operational or communication change in 1967 which ended the need for passenger consists to be recorded by the dispatchers?

    Bill Pollard

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    #7555
    kenris
    Participant

    Interesting question. I wonder why MP even recorded the consists. Other railroads, such as UP, did not.

    #7557
    benjamintickell53
    Participant

    A sidebar discussion to the dispatcher train sheet review is a discussion of the MP dispatcher offices.

    As of December 1, 1962, the following dispatcher offices/dispatcher seniority districts were listed in the agreement between MP and the American Train Dispatchers Association:
    Chester, IL
    Poplar Bluff, MO
    Little Rock and Gurdon, AR
    Monroe, LA
    Kansas City, MO
    Jefferson City, MO
    Osawatomie, KS
    Houston, TX
    Palestine, TX

    By this time, many smaller dispatcher offices had been consolidated into the above offices, and the above offices were in turn further consolidated down into fewer offices until the final consolidation into Omaha in 1990. A worthwhile project would be to establish the operating years for the various smaller dispatcher offices – some were located at rather surprising locations.

    Bill Pollard

    #7558
    peggyrothschild
    Participant

    Bill
    How about starting a list of dispatcher offices with some known employee timetable or dispatcher sheets dates and then we can modify the years for those that have earlier and later employee timetables or train sheets.

    Eastern Division
    September 1900
    St. Louis, Mo for St. Louis to Chamois, Missouri section
    January 1939 – March 1942
    Cole Junction, Mo (later named Cole, Mo) and Pacific, Missouri (K Tower) dispatchers still at Pacific in February 1961
    September 1963 – July 1964
    Jefferson City, Mo
    Open question is when were the dispatchers moved to Jefferson City from Cole and Pacific?

    White River Division –
    December 1932
    Aurora, Missouri
    Nevada, Missouri
    October 1936 to August 1948
    Nevada, Missouri
    1906-1933 (source Mike Adams White River Division book)
    Cotter, Arkansas

    Omaha-Northern Kansas Division
    March 1943 – February 1959
    Atchison, Kansas

    Kingsville Division
    January 1931 – January 1943
    Kingsville, Texas

    Palestine Division
    October 1931 – September 1950
    Palestine, Texas

    Missouri Division
    September 1935 – February 1943
    Poplar Bluff, Missouri

    Arkansas Division
    April 1932 – May 1961
    Little Rock, Arkansas
    May 1961
    Gurdon, Arkansas

    Central Kansas and Colorado Divisions
    February 1943
    Osawatomie, Kansas
    Pueblo, Colorado

    San Antonio Division
    October 1931
    San Antonio, Texas
    August 1943 –
    San Antonio, Tx and Palestine, Tx
    January 1956
    Not shown in timetable

    Gulf Coast Lines Goose Creek Subdivision
    July 1943
    Houston, Texas

    Gulf Coast Lines DeQuincy Division
    July 1921 – July 1931
    DeQuency, La

    Illinois Division
    August 1933 – May 1943
    Bush, Illinois

    Memphis division
    February 1943
    Wynne, Arkansas

    Missouri-Illinois RR
    Bush, Illinois April 1932
    Bonne Terre, Missouri July 1944 – January 1957

    Wichita Division
    March 1943
    Wichita, Kansas

    Southern Kansas
    June 1927 – June 1944
    Coffeyville, Kansas

    San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf
    October 1925
    North Pleasanton, Texas

    #7559
    benjamintickell53
    Participant

    Excellent idea, Charlie. As we fill this out, it could eventually be used for a stand alone article in some future Eagle. With regard to the move from K Tower in Pacific, MO… Per MP Magazine, May-June 1962:

    Consolidation of three separate dispatcher offices into one location on the Eastern Division was completed recently. KC- St Louis and KC-Diaz are now located at Jefferson City. CTC machines at Pleasant Hill MO and “K” Tower in Pacific MO were moved to the refurbished booster hall adjacent to Jefferson City passenger station.

    Bill

    #9601
    mopac
    Keymaster

    1927 IGN RR(MP Lines) changed titles of Night Chief dispatchers to Division
    Trainmasters, an official position. I am attaching a link to the award, as the Job at San Antonio was abolished and put back on numerous times from 1937 to at least 1940.
    Michael Lowe Awards … Third Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board
    United States. National Railroad Adjustment Board – Arbitration, Industrial
    (4) — System seniority of train dispatchers prevails on the International- Great Northern Railroad under which all of the dispatchers, regardless of the office in …
    award 3712 vol 35 third division.

    #9602
    mopac
    Keymaster

    Train Dispatchers Bulletin
    vol xx no 12 June 1916
    page 21
    MP, Monroe, La. Monroe district, Gurdon and Lake Charles districts
    C. M. Andrews Chief Dispatcher and lists other names
    C&EI 4 names at Evansville, Ind.

    page 24 William Cotter, St. Louis , Iron Mountain and Southern,
    was train dispatcher and trainmaster from 1880 to 1882 at Little Rock, Ark.
    Michael Lowe

    #9603
    mopac
    Keymaster

    Train Dispatchers Bulletin
    vol xx no 12 June 1916
    page 21
    MP, Monroe, La. Monroe district, Gurdon and Lake Charles districts
    C. M. Andrews Chief Dispatcher and lists other names
    C&EI 4 names at Evansville, Ind.

    page 24 William Cotter, St. Louis , Iron Mountain and Southern,
    was train dispatcher and trainmaster from 1880 to 1882 at Little Rock, Ark.
    Michael Lowe

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