That's an incredible resource to have so widely available now, Jeff. Thank
you for your work doing this. Historians and modellers alike will be able
to get amazing detail from those sheets on what actually happened on the
railroad day-to-day.
Brian
On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 9:04 PM Jeff Pinchbeck <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The largest portion of the collection are for around Toronto; Toronto
Terminals, MacTier, Oshawa and Belleville subs, dated January 1 1956 to
July 31 1960. I recall there are western subdivisions like Laggan,
Revelstoke and northern Ontario Schreiber subdivision from the 1950s and
perhaps more but I can’t recall. Plus there are a few for other Canadian
railways dated between 1920 and 1990. The total number of pages is very
large. I’ve scanned about 2,800 so far and there’s still more to go.
jeff
*From:* cpha-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cpha-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On
Behalf Of *Craig Talbot
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*Subject:* [cpha] Re: 1950s transition modelling
Were the dispatcher sheets from across the country, or mainly in one
region?
Craig
On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 5:27 PM Jeff Pinchbeck <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
A lot of the steam mainline trains I saw on the sheets were doubleheaders
so it would make sense to throw multiple diesels on a train and eliminate
the extra crew. The trains with the less than car load type of traffic
wouldn’t give much savings if they were done first.
