TIME TABLE No. 95, OCTOBER 25, 1970 WESTWARD TRAINS
INFERIOR DIRECTION (read down)
BN703 STATIONS
Freight Mon. Wed. Fri..
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23.1 0.0 13.1 40.6 --------- --------------- --------------- 8.1 67.8 ---------- ---------- 15:10 15:20 Mon. Wed. Fri.. BN703
WESTWARD TRAINS INFERIOR DIRECTION (read down)
91
Freight Daily
19:15 19:20 19:40 15:30 15:45 15:53 16:00 16:15 17:00 17:30 17:45 18:15 -
Daily 91
Daily 89
Notes: Note 1:
Daily 81
Daily 87
Key: Y-wye, W-water, R-train register, N-night (2 shifts) train order office, D-day (1 shift) train order office, P-telephone, X-crossover, F-flag stop, Z-Yard limits K-division point, standard clock, bulletins and train register Kraft Switcher runs Daily as 87 West.
Note 2. Siding at Fife not available for meets but may be used for off-spot cars.
Siding capacities are for average length cars (50'). There has been no allowance made in the capacity for locomotves or caboose. 4 axle locomotives equivalent to 1 average car. 6 axle locomtives equivalent to 1 1/2 average cars. A caboose equivalent to 1 average car.
FOURTH CLASS 89
81
Freight Daily Freight Daily 9:00
9:15 10:00 10:15 10:22 10:30 11:00 12:45 13:20 15:00 15:30 87
Note 1 Freight Daily
5:00 5:15 5:30 .0 0 2.6 11.9 3.7 25.7 6.2 29.7 8.7 32.4 11.2 39.1 15.5 43.5 19.1 57.8 23.1 76.8 26.8 81.5 31.8 94.8 41.8 128.6
STATIONS smiles
NELSON…ZK 2.6
SOUTH SLOCAN…YR Jct. Slocan Sub.
1.1
CASTLEGAR…ZYRXN WESTLEY
Jct. Rossland Sub. 2.5
Nil
LABARTHE 2.5
SHIELDS...P COYKENDAHL…WYXN
2.5 4.3 3.6
FARRON…WYXN 4.0
CASCADE…ZWYXN FIFE…P (Note 2)
3.7 C 23
Jct. G.N.R. 5.0
GRAND FORKS…ZWYRN
MIDWAY…ZK 10.0
GF 31 --------------- MI Yard --------------- --------------- --------------- ----------- ----------- -------- -------- --------------- --------------- ----------- -------- Nil 21 KD 23 FA 24 19 --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- --------------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- -------- -------- -------- -------- -------- --------
The system–paperwork As much as I wanted to avoid it, the table of responsibilities makes it clear: the Columbia & Western was going to need paperwork to implement TT&TO. The heart of this was the adoption of the Unified Code of Operating Rules (UCOR) or more specifically the CPR “rulebook.” This book describes all the rules for running trains on the CPR in- cluding how to interpret timetables,
After many revisions, this (above) is the current Timetable for the Columbia & West- ern. While the prototype Nelson and Boundary Subdivisions timetables were used as a starting point, changes were necessary to accommodate the model’s compressed distances and times. These are typical train instructions on their clip- boards (right). The back of the clipboards hold a reference copy of the timetable. A lanyard allows the board to be convenient- ly hung around the engineer’s necks leav- ing their hands free.
with radio headsets so the crews could OS their times to the dispatcher, but I acted as the circulating lone operator. The radio-wearing dispatcher commu- nicated the train orders to me and I manually set semaphores at the desired stations and passed the orders to the crews who stopped there. What did we learn? Well, not surprisingly, I was very, very busy and the bottleneck of the op- eration, ducking and weaving around people and the benchwork with my headset antenna and wire getting caught in both when it wasn’t falling off
RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN 43 CG 22 --------------- --------------- ----------- --------
BC Yard --------------- 26
SU Nil --------------- --------------- --------------- ----------- ----------- -------- --------
BOUNDARY SUBDIVISION
3.1 132.3 .0 137.8
CRANBROOK…K YAHK…YR
10.0
Jct. UP/SI South 5.0
CRESTON...WYRN Jct. N.P.R.
5.0
TROUP….ZYR 3.1
Jct. G.N.R. NELSON…ZK BC Yard 13:00 6:00 7:30 Daily Tue. Thur. Sat. Daily 984 BN704 90 17:00
Sun. Tue. Thur.
102
EASTWARD TRAINS SUPERIOR DIRECTION (read up)
Nil 13:15 6:45 7:45 17:15 BR 10
CK Yard 28
DA Nil Freight Daily
Freight Tue. Thur. Sat. Freight Daily
NELSON SUBDIVISION
EASTWARD TRAINS SUPERIOR DIRECTION (read up)
SECOND CLASS
984 BN704
FOURTH CLASS 90
102 Freight
Sun. Tue. Thur.
my head. That was it. The headsets had to go! Also it wasn’t very efficient to have an additional body and role simply passing information which might be better relayed directly from dispatcher to the crews. This all begged the ques- tions, could I just “design out” the agent-operator role from the C&W sav- ing the time, space, heat load and oppor- tunity for miss-communication and, if so, what would be needed to do this? On the prototype, the agent operator fills a number of roles including OS’ing passing trains to the dispatcher, setting signals for crews who have orders and clearing them once delivered, copying and verifying train orders and passing those orders up to the crews. They might also handle car demand and for- warding tasks but the car forwarding system took care of that. In the accom- panying table of responsibilities (page 42), you can see how we divided the var- ious tasks of agent/operator between the crews and the dispatcher. The ques- tion marks in the table indicted where some decisions, inventions or innova- tions were going to be required.
Continues to Staging as Rossland Subdivision Train
Originates Rossland Sub
Annulled
Continues to Staging as Rossland Subdivision Train
Arrive from BN NorthPort Sub and Turn at Troup
smiles Miles from Nelson MPs
Joint Track G.N. Ry.
MPs
Miles from Cranbrook
smiles
Smiles from Nelson
Train Order Office Signals
Car Capacity Sidings
Continue to Cranbrook Staging
Train Order Office Signals
Car Capacity Sidings [50' cars]
Turn at Troupe & Contine on BN NorthPort Sub
Continue to Cranbrook Staging
Continue to Creston Staging
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