North American Dispatching Centers

Compiling a list.

These are the ones I know: https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid= ... o5WtvtyLx8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Look up Union Pacific's "bunker" in Omaha, NB. I understand CSX is centralized to Jacksonville, but I'm not sure where.

MattW wrote:Look up Union Pacific's "bunker" in Omaha, NB. I understand CSX is centralized to Jacksonville, but I'm not sure where.

CSX also has dispatching offices in Selkirk NY and Baltimore MD.

2 for UP that I know:

Omaha, NE
Spring, TX

\BNSF:
Ft. Worth, TX
San Bernadino, CA [?]

Portland and WEstern:

Salem, OR

BNSF,UP,and Metrolink(SCAX)together,possibly at San Bernardino for the Los Angles Basin operations
BNSF at Fort Worth TX,Backup center reportly at Topeka Ks.

I used to hear a CSX dispatcher in Calumet City, IL also.

Chicago, South Shore & South Bend's is in Michigan City, IN.

Alaska Railroad's dispatch office is in Anchorage, AK.

Amtrak has major control centers in NYC, Wilmington and Boston.

BNSF -

Main center at Fort Worth, Texas

Satellite centers at -

Kansas City.
Joint with UPRR and Kansas City Terminal Railroad.
NS and KCS declined to join.

Spring, Texas (outside of Houston)
Joint with UPRR

San Bernardino, California
Joint with UPRR
Metrolink asked to join but declined.

MattW wrote:Look up Union Pacific's "bunker" in Omaha, NB. I understand CSX is centralized to Jacksonville, but I'm not sure where.

It "was" centralized but they split it up a few years ago.

CSX ones I'm aware of that haven't been mentioned here yet.

Huntington, WV
Florence, SC
Indianapolis, IN

NS

Bluefield, WV
Dearborn, Mi

Appalachianrailroads wrote:

MattW wrote:Look up Union Pacific's "bunker" in Omaha, NB. I understand CSX is centralized to Jacksonville, but I'm not sure where.

It "was" centralized but they split it up a few years ago.

CSXT Florida division is still there in Jacksonville.

CSX ones I'm aware of that haven't been mentioned here yet.

Huntington, WV
Florence, SC
Indianapolis, IN

Add Halethorpe (just out side of Baltimore)
Add Selkirk (just outside of Albany)

NS

Bluefield, WV
Dearborn, Mi[/quote]

NJ Transit is in Kearny, NJ

Metro North is in Manhattan in Grand Central Terminal

Long Island Railroad is in Penn Station in NYC.

Steve F45 wrote:NJ Transit is in Kearny, NJ

Metro North is in Manhattan in Grand Central Terminal

Long Island Railroad is in Penn Station in NYC.

There are no dispatching centers in Penn Station itself. Despite being called Penn Station Central Control, the control center is in a completely separate building, and it is an Amtrak owned facility maintained by Amtrak personnel. (myself included) Although it is a joint venture where dispatching is split between Amtrak and Long Island Railroad dispatchers, but only on the stretches shared with LIRR trains. Everything west of Penn Station is all under Amtrak dispatcher control. LIRR's main dispatching facility is in Jamaica, Queens. LIRR trains can only be controlled from PSCC as far east as Harold Interlocking, everything east of that is controlled from Jamaica.

Don't forget the ARDC (American Rail Dispatching Center) located in the ancient railroad station in St. Albans, VT. This center handles dispatching on contract for an assortment of short lines and regional railroads. It is run by Tom Murphy, a nice guy, by the way.

I used to work for several short lines and regionals that were dispatched by ARDC. These guys did a very professional and efficient job, and I'm sure they still do.

Les

According to some friends of mine who monitor the CP/NS "South End" (former Delaware and Hudson and PRR south of Wilkes-Barre), this line is now dispatched from a center in Minneapolis, along with the Wisconsin Central (former Soo Line), and possibly some other CP properties on the American side of the border.

If memory serves me correctly, I was told at one time that these functions were once handled by a center in Milwaukee, but I can't confirm it. And a pending sale of the "Sunbury Sub" to NS would likely result in another move.