i hear anything from a couple of centimeters to a couple of feet...How will this affect ports like Norfolk VA aka Hamton Roads or the Port of NY/NJ. I beleive that global warming if true would help inland ports like Montreal and the Great Lakes. Its sad to see that Chicago Ship Traffic is a fraction of what it used to be maybe it will come back. BTW CSX moved its dispatch center inland to Selkirk NY from Jax FL. and NS has moved its dispatch center inland as well. Northern Ports like CN Prince Rupert in Canada could become big metro centers someday. see also-
http://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/612710
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/06/republicans-trying-to-stop-pentagon-climate-plan-000149
Can you cite a reliable source that CSX has closed its Jacksonville dispatching center?
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
Brian Schmidt Can you cite a reliable source that CSX has closed its Jacksonville dispatching center?
No, he will not be able to.
An "expensive model collector"
CSX decentralized its Dispatching Center in Jacksonville in 2008. Jacksonville Division disptaching is still done from the K C Dufford Dispatch Center in Jacksonville. CSX Dispatching officers are in Jacksonville, Atlanta, Florence, Baltimore, Selkirk, Indianapolis, Nashville, Cincinnati and Chicago.
Climate change was not a factor in the decision.
Signed - a Dispatcher that retired TODAY with 51.5 years with CSX and its predecessors.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Sincerest best wishes and congrats on your retirement !!!!!
Congrats Balt on your retirement!
Congratulations Balt.
Don't forget that your second home is right here.
Norm
BaltACD Signed - a Dispatcher that retired TODAY with 51.5 years with CSX and its predecessors.
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BaltACD CSX decentralized its Dispatching Center in Jacksonville in 2008. Jacksonville Division disptaching is still done from the K C Dufford Dispatch Center in Jacksonville. CSX Dispatching officers are in Jacksonville, Atlanta, Florence, Baltimore, Selkirk, Indianapolis, Nashville, Cincinnati and Chicago. Climate change was not a factor in the decision. Signed - a Dispatcher that retired TODAY with 51.5 years with CSX and its predecessors.
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edblysard BaltACD CSX decentralized its Dispatching Center in Jacksonville in 2008. Jacksonville Division disptaching is still done from the K C Dufford Dispatch Center in Jacksonville. CSX Dispatching officers are in Jacksonville, Atlanta, Florence, Baltimore, Selkirk, Indianapolis, Nashville, Cincinnati and Chicago. Climate change was not a factor in the decision. Signed - a Dispatcher that retired TODAY with 51.5 years with CSX and its predecessors. Good deal...hope you have something to keep busy with..I am going nuts.
Good deal...hope you have something to keep busy with..I am going nuts.
Congrats on retiring..51.5 years.. that must have been quite the ride with so many changes along the way.
Congratulations, Balt. And I'll second Ed's recomendation to stay busy. I went nuts when I first retired.
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BaltACD 51.5 years with
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B&O and it's successors
Any serious railfans here?
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CandOforprogress2 i hear anything from a couple of centimeters to a couple of feet...How will this affect ports like Norfolk VA aka Hamton Roads or the Port of NY/NJ. I beleive that global warming if true would help inland ports like Montreal and the Great Lakes. Its sad to see that Chicago Ship Traffic is a fraction of what it used to be maybe it will come back. BTW CSX moved its dispatch center inland to Selkirk NY from Jax FL. and NS has moved its dispatch center inland as well. Northern Ports like CN Prince Rupert in Canada could become big metro centers someday. see also- http://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/612710 http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/06/republicans-trying-to-stop-pentagon-climate-plan-000149
Houston already has plans in place for this, we are going to invade San Antonio...or El Paso.
CandOforprogress2BTW CSX moved its dispatch center inland to Selkirk NY from Jax FL. and NS has moved its dispatch center inland as well. Northern Ports like CN Prince Rupert in Canada could become big metro centers someday. see also- http://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/612710 http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/06/republicans-trying-to-stop-pentagon-climate-plan-000149
NS has never had a Centrailzed Dispatching Center. Their Dispatching offices are located in a number of locations around their system.
When the split of ConRail occured, the former ConRail office at Mt. Laurel, NJ had the dispatchers for the territory CSX received moved to the Selkirk office. Where the dispatchers for the territory that went to Shared Assets and/or NS went I don't know.
Murphy Siding edblysard BaltACD CSX decentralized its Dispatching Center in Jacksonville in 2008. Jacksonville Division disptaching is still done from the K C Dufford Dispatch Center in Jacksonville. CSX Dispatching officers are in Jacksonville, Atlanta, Florence, Baltimore, Selkirk, Indianapolis, Nashville, Cincinnati and Chicago. Climate change was not a factor in the decision. Signed - a Dispatcher that retired TODAY with 51.5 years with CSX and its predecessors. Good deal...hope you have something to keep busy with..I am going nuts. Are you retired too, or just going nuts?
edblysard BaltACD CSX decentralized its Dispatching Center in Jacksonville in 2008. Jacksonville Division disptaching is still done from the K C Dufford Dispatch Center in Jacksonville. CSX Dispatching officers are in Jacksonville, Atlanta, Florence, Baltimore, Selkirk, Indianapolis, Nashville, Cincinnati and Chicago. Climate change was not a factor in the decision. Signed - a Dispatcher that retired TODAY with 51.5 years with CSX and its predecessors. Good deal...hope you have something to keep busy with..I am going nuts. Are you retired too, or just going nuts?
Are you retired too, or just going nuts?
Season starts in January 2017 at Homestead-Miamai Speedway.
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Congratulations, Balt! Keep busy--and don't forget us who have appreciated your posts for many years.
Be careful going down to Miami, especially if the weather continues to be bothersome.
Johnny
I leave the forum for just a little while and you go and retire! That was very sneaky!
I do hope you will keep your finger on the pulse here, since I always have questions and need the nice people on here who always give me answers.
Congrats and after the dust settles, you will really enjoy retirement! Retirees make their own fun!
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
First of all, from another railroad retiree, congratulations, Balt! Have a long, healthy, and happy retirement, free from worries.As for the sea level rising, it might make unnecessary the dredging out of some harbors... (And it may come sooner rather than later--from pictures seen recently, a large section of an ice shelf in Antarctica is about to break off from the mainland, producing an iceberg about the size of the state of Delaware!)
Carl
Railroader Emeritus (practiced railroading for 46 years--and in 2010 I finally got it right!)
CAACSCOCOM--I don't want to behave improperly, so I just won't behave at all. (SM)
How long before we see you going pro on the circuit?
Oh yeah, that looks real safe!
Murphy SidingHow long before we see you going pro on the circuit?
No Pro. Club racing - bragging rights and $10 trophies - and a whole lot of commradery.
BaltACDSigned - a Dispatcher that retired TODAY with 51.5 years with CSX and its predecessors.
Congrats! 51.5 years with one company is a rarity. Best of luck with the transition.
C&NW, CA&E, MILW, CGW and IC fan
CShaveRR As for the sea level rising, it might make unnecessary the dredging out of some harbors... (And it may come sooner rather than later--from pictures seen recently, a large section of an ice shelf in Antarctica is about to break off from the mainland, producing an iceberg about the size of the state of Delaware!)
As for the sea level rising, it might make unnecessary the dredging out of some harbors... (And it may come sooner rather than later--from pictures seen recently, a large section of an ice shelf in Antarctica is about to break off from the mainland, producing an iceberg about the size of the state of Delaware!)
And if that shelf was floating, not sitting on dry land, the melting ice won't raise the general sea level a millimeter.
Maybe the water-starved Californians should send a fleet of tugboats down to drag it up to La-La Land before it has a chance to melt.
In order to make dredging unnecessary, sea level would have to rise on the order of twenty feet - and after a while the channel would still silt up.
Chuck (fifteen years retired and loving it)
Balt, Congrats from me as well!
As for the original qestion, the data I've seen is global sea levels rising by 6 to 12" per century. Local sea level rise also depends of the local rise and fall land due to various geologic (tectonic) forces - Mudchicken could give a much more knowledge description of those processes than I could.
Good for you Balt! Please let us know how it goes.
Me, I've got nine days until my own "R Date".
greyhounds BaltACD Signed - a Dispatcher that retired TODAY with 51.5 years with CSX and its predecessors. Good for you Balt! Please let us know how it goes. Me, I've got nine days until my own "R Date".
Ken: Between you and Balt, that is many years of wisdom. Hard to replace.
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