Replying to Train Dispatcher

I just discovered this game, and find it strangely compelling. Naturally I had to try a section near home, and tried dispatching the Canadian Pacific between Minneapolis and Portage on a Sunday. Like the OP (eight years ago), I now have a much better appreciation for how difficult dispatching is. Try as I might, I still ended up putting the Empire Builder on a siding when it met an intermodal too long for the siding, and it ended up late into La Crosse. The shame!

I would try it, but as an engineer, I already KNOW I'm over qualified to be a dispatcher!

I just discovered this game, and find it strangely compelling. Naturally I had to try a section near home, and tried dispatching the Canadian Pacific between Minneapolis and Portage on a Sunday. Like the OP (eight years ago), I now have a much better appreciation for how difficult dispatching is. Try as I might, I still ended up putting the Empire Builder on a siding when it met an intermodal too long for the siding, and it ended up late into La Crosse. The shame!

Amtrak dispatches all the tracks from South Station to Providence (and beyond that to New Haven); I don't know if the dispatchers for those tracks are even in Massachusetts.

NEC from Boston to new Haven is dispatched out of CETC located in Boston.

The Framingham to Worcester tracks are dispatched by CSX; I don't think that dispatcher is in Massachusetts.

That is probably dispatched out of CSX galactic headquarters in Jacksonville FL!

does anyone know how to get a job doing train dispatching like up here in the boston area let me know?

Most of the MBTA Commuter Rail system is dispatched by MBCR; http://www.mbcr.net/jobs.html has their list of current job openings, which currently doesn't seem to include dispatching.

Amtrak dispatches all the tracks from South Station to Providence (and beyond that to New Haven); I don't know if the dispatchers for those tracks are even in Massachusetts.

The Framingham to Worcester tracks are dispatched by CSX; I don't think that dispatcher is in Massachusetts.

There are also some small freight railroads who may have dispatchers in Massachusetts.

If you need additional tester. I am available. Let me know.

Maybe in a few weeks.

I just finished adding the new fictitious North Brunswick station and the connection to MOM at Midway including a duck-under, and of course the requisite set of MOM trains.

Haven't done the morning inbound rush hour timetable yet. Just the evening outbound rush hour for now.

I am starting the stress TD3 now and getting close to some of its limits.

If you need additional tester. I am available. Let me know.

I have just finished building the TD 3 track layout for the new Portal DEIS and new ARC SDEIS with a somewhat fictitious schedule of trains, including a fictitious Newark Airport to New York Shuttle, and of course the Scranton Expresses too just to add more traffic and make it harder. Talk about going nuts Anyway, I am having fun with it so far. It is actually the entire NEC in the state of NJ with the new track layouts as planned in the various DEISs. Amazingly the setup is almost manageable, and is certainly manageable if I remove my additional fictitious trains, specially the EWR shuttles. Of course there are lots of bugs to be debugged still both timetable and track section property bugs.

does anyone know how to get a job doing train dispatching like up here in the boston area let me know?

I HATE IT WHEN THE DISPATCHER DOES THAT!!! Just this past Sunday the dispatcher called us and requested engine number and milepost. Well just in case you didn't notice it's all right there in the computer!!!

Now just put yourself working a TWC area with no screen to look at the only way you know where the trains are is you ask them over the radio.