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Where does UP dispatch from in Chicago

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Where does UP dispatch from in Chicago
Posted by CNWRacine on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:24 AM
I was reading that Union Pacific has a dispatching facility in Chicago.  Where is it located?  I thought that all dispatching was done from Omaha and Dallas on the BNSF shared line.
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Posted by eolafan on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:55 AM
Every time I have listened to UP on my scanner I hear the dispatchers in Omaha, NE and on BNSF it is Fort Worth dispatching up in the Chicago area. I have never heard an exception.
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Posted by Railway Man on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:19 AM

UP has a single desk at the CTCO office in Chicago.  UP also has desks at the Joint Dispatching Center in Kansas City; at Spring, Texas; joint with BNSF at San Bernardino, California, and in Fort Worth; and a single desk at Roseville, California.

RWM 

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