Re: (erielack) Dispatcher Qualification

[Smtimko_@_aol.com]

In a message dated 7/7/2011 9:50:03 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
graytrainpix_@_hotmail.com writes:

PS, one  more little thing, wonder if anyone else noticed -- t'was a great 
Diamond  article and map on the EL divisions, but what was the "Buffalo 
Terminal  Division" from the 1974 TT4 ? Looks like the yards and a few branches 
around  BX, with the main from Hornell to East Buffalo becoming the "Buffalo 
 Sub-Division" of the Susquehanna Div.   Maybe it was a cost savings  
measure, eliminated an RFE and a Chief Dispatcher, maybe some other staff?  

There was a cost-savings and operations savings that combined most of  the 
former Buffalo Division with the Susquehanna Division.  I believe most  of 
that was done to allow the remaining supervision in Buffalo to be covered  
under the umbrella of Bison Yard, thus paid partially by N&W.  The  Buffalo 
Divn had one DS and one ACTD per trick.  I don't recall if a full  desk was 
moved to Hornell or if it was combined with another desk but the  dispatching 
was moved to Hornell.
 
The change really didn't work too well.  I seem to recall that for at  
least a period EL retained a CTD in Buffalo on each trick to be a "local hands  
on guy".  Not  sure how long that lasted.  (The B&LE (now CN)  has the same 
arrangement today:  dispatchers are in Michigan, the Chief  Dispatcher is in 
Greenville, PA.)
 
SMT


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