For the TT&TO dispatcher, the train order is the tool he uses to make the railroad run smoothly. Running the train, you'd lean way out and aim your arm for the middle of the fork, with fingers closed. Hooping up orders to a train at Dorval, Quebec - March 1967 Kevin Day. 4033 at Banff.
Hooping up train orders, CP style 1974 Author: eminence_grise.
This exemplifies the challenges operators had to deal with sometimes, passing on train orders in all types of weather in all seasons. This arrangement did not require the operator to stand outside and wait for the train to pass. I have personally set the signal, written the train orders issued by dispatcher and handed up the train orders to crews as their train flew past me. Train orders were of two types: “31’s,” which had to be signed for by a member of the train crew, and “19’s,” which did not. An explanation of the order board semaphore controlled by agents and operators. : There are some things in railroading that have been lost to time. Caption: The operator at CP's Guelph Junction station stands at the ready, train order hoop in hand, to hoop up on orders to westbound CP #501 as it approaches the station during a snowstorm.
Taking orders on the fly required a bit of nerve and dexterity. Toronto Public Library/James V. Salmon Collection Operator is hooping up orders to the headend.
Here, operator "Gus" Quintin is preparing to deliver train orders to the westbound "Canadian" at Vaudreuil QC in 1974. Timetable and Train Order Operation is a method of keeping trains from having collisions and, at the same time, move the trains efficiently over the system. In addition, this is paperwork driven and therefore a number of forms are needed. The orders would be removed, and the hoop thrown down so the operator could retrieve it. Hoop 'Em Up! 8 eng. Write a good order and trains traverse the line safely and efficiently, write bad orders and trains bog down, crew time expires, and worse. A question: When was hooping up train orders last done in revenue service in the US?
I must disclose that while I have had the chance to copy and repeat (by telephone) train orders and to even hand up train orders to a train on a siding, this was years ago and long before I went to work for the railroad. I actually own such a V-hoop and still have a yellow tissue copy of the first train order that I ever wrote. The image (below right) is a V-shaped Train Order hoop. Also, everyone involved in the system must know the rules. Hooping train orders to crews is one. (I'm assuming the practice is now extinct.) If we still used train orders, you couldn't take someone off the street and make them a conductor in a few months.
Some lines also used a fixed order delivery hoop with positions for several forks on which operators could hang orders. I was wondering if anyone out there has any detailed photos on how train orders were tied into the "V" style ... there is a good chance that the clip will cut the string when the orders are taken). 1432 and a B unit power northbound No.11 stopping at West Toronto depot.
The former were employed when the dispatcher needed to know that the affected train actually had the order, while the latter were used when he did not. A loaded coal train with engines 5816 and 5863 on the point is passing Sperry Railcar 123. Disk 1 The crewman on the passing train would stick out his arm and “catch” the hoop with his whole arm. Freight trains got their orders at the Diamond tower. I remember in these parts there was a big to-do in 2006 when the LIRR finally closed (and then demolished) PD Tower in Patchogue, NY, a manual interlocking where the operator was still occasionally hooping up orders until the very end (and there was even an … Hoop it Up is about train orders written during operations on the B&O Chillicothe Sub (BORRCS). CP continued to use old style train order hoops long after other railroads went to the "Y" type.
Hooping up orders to No. Train Order Hoop Info Question Author: wabash2800. The elevation here is 3,090 feet.
The train is hooping up orders at the little depot at Elko, BC on July 16, 1981. The orders could be fastened to a hoop made from a flexible withe that was held up by the free end, and the fireman or conductor could put his arm through the hoop. Orders were attached within this hoop and the pole was then held up to a passing train.
A much later method used a Y-shaped fork with the orders tied to a string looped around the Y and held by spring catches. July 2, 1957 .
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