Depends on who has/gets the dispatching responsibility when the change you mention happens. If a change occurs, how timely will OTOL note the change.
Yes...didn't notice your post when I made a similiar post!
Well, if you don't stay aware of/keep up with frequency changes as they occur you don't have much choice...scan the 97 channels or make use of "Close Call"
Scanning a few channels is fast and practical. Scanning nearly 100 channels continuously is slow enough that it's entirely possible for some or all of a transmission to get lost in the delay of trying to track everything else. In major cities scanning a hundred channels at once will often result in catching traffic on another unrelated channel that has little or nothing to do with the activity along your specific route.
Yes, scanning that many channels you are bound to miss something. I don't do that during my train travels...once I determine the relevant active channel I stay there until a frequency change is made. Then, I move to the next channel and hold there.
This can be a tricky area though.. For instance when I worked at NS, we used 4 main channels.. 46/46, 50/50, 58/58, and 64/64. We would refer to 46/46 as "channel one" 64/64 as "channel two" 50/50 as "channel three" and 58/58 as "channel four". That's just how things were. So for instance if we were on the Main between FALLS and NORRIS where we would go over to the yard channel if we were going in the yard we'd say something to the effect of. H83 CO to the head end switch over to channel three. That way we could shove into the yard and not have to worry about using Main Line's channel.
