Understanding How Train Dispatchers Manage And Control Trains PDF Download

Excerpt from Train Rules and Train Dispatching: A Practical Guide for Train Dispatchers, Enginemen, Trainmen and All Who Have to Do With the Movement of Trains Today. As fifty years ago, the train dispatcher is an indispensable factor in the successful operation of American railways. He has grown with the growth of railway transporta tion; his hand still controls the levers of the huge machine into which it has developed, and his eye watches with sleepless vigilance the movement of the trains which are the threads that, weaving in and out in ceaseless motion, constitute the mighty web of a continental com merce. How he does it is the story of this book, and the story well and worthily told. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.