BaltACD The Division, at the request of my fellow Dispatchers, named the 2 miles of the South Baltimore Branch between Control Points Carroll and Clifford in my honor. I accepted it on behalf of my Grandfathers 47 years of service and my fathers 37 years of service as well as my 51 years of service. MCABEE Yard Limits. So I get to antognize future generations of CSX employees! Even on the last day I worked - something 'new' happened - Every day the aim is the same, but the playing field changes, day in, day out and hour by hour. Save
The Division, at the request of my fellow Dispatchers, named the 2 miles of the South Baltimore Branch between Control Points Carroll and Clifford in my honor. I accepted it on behalf of my Grandfathers 47 years of service and my fathers 37 years of service as well as my 51 years of service. MCABEE Yard Limits. So I get to antognize future generations of CSX employees!
Even on the last day I worked - something 'new' happened - Every day the aim is the same, but the playing field changes, day in, day out and hour by hour.
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Congratulations, may your retirement be a happy and healthy one!
The first few weeks you'll feel like your on vacation, but after a while you wake up asking yourself, shouldn't I be going to work? Took me awhile to get use to my new pattern in life.
Good luck and best wishes.
Lower Prices and stop making it a pain in the butt to be a railroad customer.
Just be careful that if you go out for a drive that you don't end up in the company parking lot (been there, done that!).
Semper Vaporo
Pkgs.
BaltACD I also have a set of steroscopic slides and the viewer that my father purchased as at 13 year old boy of the B&O's Fair of the Iron Horse in 1927. Ironicly the Fair was held at the same location that I would retire from. I had also been a part of the team that opened B&O's Baltimore Terminal Services Center in 1978 in the same building space I would retire from in 2016 with that space having been reconfigured for the Baltimore Division Dispatching Center, with the Division Offices in adjoining space. The semaphore signals that are visible are part of the HX Tower interlocking at Halethorpe, MD. The brick tower building still exists, the interlocking doesn't; having been moved about 1 mile West, for additional track capacity and renamed St. Denis.
I also have a set of steroscopic slides and the viewer that my father purchased as at 13 year old boy of the B&O's Fair of the Iron Horse in 1927. Ironicly the Fair was held at the same location that I would retire from. I had also been a part of the team that opened B&O's Baltimore Terminal Services Center in 1978 in the same building space I would retire from in 2016 with that space having been reconfigured for the Baltimore Division Dispatching Center, with the Division Offices in adjoining space.
The semaphore signals that are visible are part of the HX Tower interlocking at Halethorpe, MD. The brick tower building still exists, the interlocking doesn't; having been moved about 1 mile West, for additional track capacity and renamed St. Denis.
wanswheel BaltACD I also have a set of steroscopic slides and the viewer that my father purchased as at 13 year old boy of the B&O's Fair of the Iron Horse in 1927. Ironicly the Fair was held at the same location that I would retire from. I had also been a part of the team that opened B&O's Baltimore Terminal Services Center in 1978 in the same building space I would retire from in 2016 with that space having been reconfigured for the Baltimore Division Dispatching Center, with the Division Offices in adjoining space. The semaphore signals that are visible are part of the HX Tower interlocking at Halethorpe, MD. The brick tower building still exists, the interlocking doesn't; having been moved about 1 mile West, for additional track capacity and renamed St. Denis.
Movement adds a great deal to the static images of my slides.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
BaltACD wanswheel BaltACD I also have a set of steroscopic slides and the viewer that my father purchased as at 13 year old boy of the B&O's Fair of the Iron Horse in 1927. Ironicly the Fair was held at the same location that I would retire from. I had also been a part of the team that opened B&O's Baltimore Terminal Services Center in 1978 in the same building space I would retire from in 2016 with that space having been reconfigured for the Baltimore Division Dispatching Center, with the Division Offices in adjoining space. The semaphore signals that are visible are part of the HX Tower interlocking at Halethorpe, MD. The brick tower building still exists, the interlocking doesn't; having been moved about 1 mile West, for additional track capacity and renamed St. Denis. Movement adds a great deal to the static images of my slides. Wow, The logistics of the show. Had to have had a great dispatcher to manage all that operation. Its amazing when the heads of corporations want to do something, the troops can make it happen. Beancounters be dammed.
Wow, The logistics of the show. Had to have had a great dispatcher to manage all that operation. Its amazing when the heads of corporations want to do something, the troops can make it happen. Beancounters be dammed.
BaltACD wanswheel BaltACD I also have a set of steroscopic slides and the viewer that my father purchased as at 13 year old boy of the B&O's Fair of the Iron Horse in 1927. Ironicly the Fair was held at the same location that I would retire from. I had also been a part of the team that opened B&O's Baltimore Terminal Services Center in 1978 in the same building space I would retire from in 2016 with that space having been reconfigured for the Baltimore Division Dispatching Center, with the Division Offices in adjoining space. The semaphore signals that are visible are part of the HX Tower interlocking at Halethorpe, MD. The brick tower building still exists, the interlocking doesn't; having been moved about 1 mile West, for additional track capacity and renamed St. Denis. Movement adds a great deal to the static images of my slides. Wow, The logistics of the show. Had to have had a great dispatcher to manage all that operation. Its amazing when the heads of corporations want to do something, the troops can make it happen. Beancounters be dammed. Baltacd, Congratulations on 51 years of service. Hope you have a lot of satisfaction in your career. Enjoy playing with the racers. I thank you for the informative info you have provided. As Spock said, "Live long and Prosper."
Baltacd,
Congratulations on 51 years of service. Hope you have a lot of satisfaction in your career. Enjoy playing with the racers. I thank you for the informative info you have provided. As Spock said, "Live long and Prosper."
- Paul North.
rdamon Looks like there was another retirement this week … The last active F-4 Phantom II was retired yesterday. http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/pharewell-phantom.html
A fine send-off to a remarkable aircraft. From the 60's to the 21st Century, just amazing. Imagine a World War One SPAD 13 flying missions in Vietnam, that's akin to what the Phantom's achived.
Imagine the B-52. Introduced in 1955 and still in service.
Norm
Norm48327 Imagine the B-52. Introduced in 1955 and still in service.
You bet! That's another amazing one, along with the C-130, introduced in the 50's and still in production.
Firelock76Imagine a World War One SPAD 13 flying missions in Vietnam, that's akin to what the Phantom's achived.
The Douglas A-1 Skyraider ("Sandy" and also called "SPAD") came close - WW2 to 'Nam and into the 80'
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
Damn! You all are trying to make me feel old. One is never too old to have a happy childhood!
Now Balt, remember this, you're not old, you're experienced.
Firelock76 Now Balt, remember this, you're not old, you're experienced.
As Carls says, after years of practicing his craft, he finally got it right...
BaltACD Damn! You all are trying to make me feel old. One is never too old to have a happy childhood!
OK. For you, I'll twist an old saw I learned at my Gold Wing chapter:
You don't stop racing because you get old. You get old because you stop racing.
The world is yours now. Go enjoy it. Have fun.
Congratulations on your retirement and wishing you a Merry Christmas.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
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Congratulations Balt and thanks for your many informative postings. May the Flying Carpet Kitten take you to where ever you decide to go in the future.
Very cool! Congrats! Enjoy your retirement!
-Don (Random stuff, mostly about trains - what else? http://blerfblog.blogspot.com/)
All that institutional memory - wow. It isn't antagonism, it's a high mark to shoot for, for all those following.
I don't want to take anything away from anybody, but NS in Dearborn Michigan had an assistant chief train dispatcher retire after 60 years back in October, 2016. Doug Cravens started out with the PRR in Fort Wayne in 1956 as a tower operator. He's also got a Control Point named after him. Doug doesn't count the two weeks he worked as a fireman on the Erie between Huntington, Indiana and Marion, Ohio before going to work for the Pennsy as he didn't enjoy it too much.
Sending a huge congratulations to BaltACD!! Now you can go to work full time in proving what we have all read 10,436 times at the bottom of your posts on here!
Congratulations, Balt!
Wishing you many years of satisfaction, watching the trains from afar and enjoying the sight of others putting up with the %&%#$%*^*&*#@#.
Tom
Firelock76Imagine a World War One SPAD 13 flying missions in Vietnam, that's akin to what the Phantom's achieved.
And not over yet! - there are more than a hundred still flying overseas.
Admittedly the Spad XIII would have been doing Buffalo Hunter duty in 'Nam to keep the analogy intact - but it's also fair to say that one flying as an 'active duty' aircraft in a Bicentennial display would be an accurate comparison.
Congratulations on your retirement!! Stay active would like to see you around for years to come...
Rick 8N' Sand
BaltACD:
WOW! 51 years is a long time. I had 38 years NP-BN-BNSF in Minneapolis and have been retired 12 years. You must have many stories.
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Congratulations to Balt, may be enjoy his retirement for many decades!
N.F.
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