This Dispatcher Rides Trains

[Anonymous]

Nathan, i wouldn't worry about nicknames sounds like your fellow dispatchers will handle that and i bet that your voice will sound like at least 4 guys already work down there. My only advice after really thinking about and listening to the radio and thinking. 1 when you screw up and i mean like forget to line a train up don't just say "signal indication" because we know that there is prolly nothing holding us back that will change a signal from stop to clear. JUST YOU LINING US UP! 2 Don't lie to us. sometimes the truth sucks but we can't change it. i got lied to this morning and i hated it. maybe lie isn't right maybe just unrealistic. The one thing that will help and hurt you is seat time on trains and knowing who all the clowns are at least on the east end. 3 if you have a problem or just a question and don't care what the back room or anybody else cares and someone you know and trust is out there just nonchalanty ask them on the radio to call you on the phone. yes we are breaking some rules but we (I do anyway) all the time. We have so many enemies on the railroad with management i want my allies on the train and in the dispatch office to get my butt home.

[Jack_S]

QUOTE: Originally posted by mloik

QUOTE: Originally posted by Jack_S


In a Formula Ford race at Riverside in the 1980s, I saw one car blow its engine in Turn 2, steer away from the racing line, exit onto the dirt, and coast up behind the fence near a flag station. He got out of the car, secured it, and walked over to the flag station. Observing that they were shorthanded, he joined their crew and flagged the rest of the race until the tow came for his car at the end. Naturally, he was a flagger when not racing his car.

Jack

Hey Jack,

Off topic, but when I was a student at UCLA in the '80s I went to a few races at Riverside. Great track, and I was sad to see it (literally) bulldozed into suburban ticky-tack housing developments.

Michael

Riverside MADE SoCal road racing. When RR closed, it almost killed off the Cal Club (SoCal SCCA) worker groups. Now that California Speedway has an infield road racing course things may pick up again.