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By Roy Long
History and Evolution of
Railroad Rules. Third in a Series
- Period 1850-1860 Reprint from
The Tra{n Dispatcher with
permission.
This decade marked the
beginning of train orders by
telegraph, the day of the world's first
train dispatcher and thus the
development of a whole new
profession, as well as resultant
drastic changes in rules governing
movement of trains.
In 1850 the Erie was said to be
the earliest "long" railroad in the
United States - 469 miles. Although
there was some variation in the
width between rail (gauge) on some
of the branch lines, the major
portion of main track was six feet,
Under the rules then in effect, the seem to imply• Wrote Jacobs, "It
Mail Train was required to wait on must not be supposed that all
the turnout (siding) for an hour, railroads immediately adopted the
after which it could proceed under use of dispatchers or train orders by
flag against the opposing Night telegraph. Telegraphic orders, like
Train. the air-brake and automatic coupler,
After some 40 minutes on the was a plan of slow growth and it
Turners siding with no sign of the was not for many years that it
overdue opposing train, Minot became general and still longer
glanced out of the car window and before it became universal."
his eye fell on the telegraph office Minot, however, did move quickly
and wired Goshen, 13 miles west, to to put his newly demonstrated idea
inquire if the Night Train had into effect at once on his road, adding
passed• Learning thatithadnot, he to the growing tradition of that
wired the agent to hold that train
until the arrival of the Mail Train.
Minot.then instructed the engineer
of his train to proceed to Goshen at
full speed. The engineer refused on
the logical grounds that the rules
widest of any in the nation. This, it forbade it and, furthermore, he had
is assumed, was because the original no wish to be involved in a head-on
charter required that the Erie could collision. Minot then took the
not interchange with any other controls and ran the train to Goshen,
railroad• himself.
period that the Erie was to be known
as the "railroad of the firsts." He
developed a system of uniform forms
for establishing meets and
conveying telegraphic authority for
train movement which he called
"dispatches" rather than the later
designation of :train orders•" These
"dispatches" were the basis for the
appellation "train dispatchers"
which came to be universally applied
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LETTERS POLICY
L .... ' Charles Minot, Erie At Goshen he again wired "hold" to the men headquartered in theLetters are welcome, but no more
Superintendent was a Harvard instructions to successive advance nerve centers of the railroads and than one letter each month wil! be
graduate and one of the most station moving his train against the whose Job it is to direct the tide of ~c:~:):defrw°l~bteheveSaT:let[:::or~
I = NOTICE' LEASE- d re n's brilliant and progressive railroad • " " • • g~
~~ Night Tram untll they finally met trams and thelr movements over 300 words or less Longer letters
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,I PUBLICATION POLICY ea It h men of his day. He had previously at a station which is now Port Jerws• spemfied portmns of the property. ] may be shortened, or rejected.
served as Superintendent on the Thus was established, a century and Minot's system providing for train ] Letters must be signed and must
I ...does not permit us to publish items of Treating Pediatric Trauma Boston & Maine beginning in 1841 a quarter ago, a principle ofdispatchers and the use of telegraph ] include an address and phone
I commercial nature which would be classified ................. I number• The telephone number will
| as paidadve~ising. (NAPS)--To help save the livesand for a few years thereafter, rauroaamg oy wnlcn ~lme was alspa~cnes or oraers ~o conzer ; ~,,hn~hoa-Lott~h~E mail
I Higher newsprint and other costs; plus of severely injured children and to following which he moved to the conserved and safety was enhanced authority to and remove authority I w]l'l n~o~be'ac'cepted'unlessfollowed
| longer press runs for circulation; dictate that help those who survive on the Erie. It was his imaginative and far- through the first developments in from trains the road, remained in I up with a signed letter.
| stribt editorial judgement must prevail, road to recovery, the nation s most sighted approach that was field of electronic communications, effect on the Erie without major ] Letters will be edited for grammar,
I Unsolicited items which enter this office comprehensive pediatric traumainstrumental in encouraging the In the book, Erie Railroad: It's change for the next 37 years• It was ] spelling, taste,, syntax, and hbeL
..... i~ ames will no~ be wltnneia.
I become our property, but can usually be institute has been established by building of the new telegraph line Begmnlngs, Author Robert Woodruff he who first designated stations by [ Address them to Letters to the
i retrieved upon publication, the Wake Forest University Bap- along the Erie right-of-way in 1847. wrote"As a result of that experience initials or "call letters" provided a [ Editor, P. O• Box 1000, Hinton, WV
I Guest editorials do not necessarily reflect tist Medical Center• It was on Sept. 22, 1851, that Minot put a dispatcher in charge of form of authorization for trains to ] 25951. "
o I the views of the Hinton News. The Childress Institute for~Iinot made an important decision tram operations over each diviston - leave initial stations; and ' ~ ~ 4
| Publisher reserves right to reject or cancel Pediatric Trauma will focus on which qualified him as the first train a universal railroad from that day transferred to the dispatchers much Sum mers Cou ntv ::
I any advertisement at any time. key areas in treatment, education
[ Cancellations will not be accepted by and training, research and pre- dispatcher in history. He was riding to this. But historian Warren Jacobs, of the authority that had been [ M~-~r,~,i,4,d I ~
I publisher after the closing date.
| The closing date and the deadline for vention of pediatric trauma• Ini- the "Mail Train" (trains werelnot in a study titled Early Rules and the previously conveyed to trains by I m~u|tta|_,~.~.,,~ty, | :~:
I placing business advertisements is Thursday tial funding for the Institute came numbered then), departing NewStandard Code written for thetimetable• In 1888 the adoption of [ ACWP :~
1 at 12noon. The closing date and the deadline from NASCAR champion team York at 8:00 a• m• and had arrived Railway and Locomotive Society, the block system necessitated some ~ is a non-profit group of local [ -~i~
'1 for placing classified advertisements is owner Richard Childress and his Turners at 10:28 a• m•, right on time, points out that the establishment of rather extensive modifications in the ~ volunteers that is here to help. ] '~.;
| Thursday at 12 noon. family, which donated $5 million where it had a timetable-scheduled dispatchers and dispatching offices code as established, by Supt. Minot. i~ Do you need to have a pet [
l Publisher not bound by any terms or to~ Wake Forest Baptist to initiate meet with the westbound "Night was not the immediate development ~ ~vo.d~r n~.utered orneedI c
uf ' NARCONON ,
l conditions, printed or otherwise, appearing on the project scheduled to get under Train," also due at Turners at 10:26. that Woodr f s statement would !~cnin~ti~.~ I ' ~!
m order blanks, advefliser's forms or copy way later this year. Wake Forest Narconon reminds families that ~ ........ ~'~" ~.-.:ii ........ |