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Nathanael
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And how about the Whirlpool bridge?Incidentally the Empire Corridor - NYP to Spuyten Duyvil and Poughkeepsie to Hoffmans + Post Road (Rensselaer) is also controlled out of NY CETC as a separate Section (I am thinking Section C but could be wrong).
For an example which I actually mostly understand, consider a Wolverine train. It starts out in Chicago being dispatched by Amtrak from Union Station. Then it has to get permission from NS to get onto the Chicago Line; at that point it is under the control of the NS dispatcher. Then the NS dispatcher has to get permission from the Metra dispatcher for the Rock Island Line to cross Englewood Crossing (Metra "owns" the crossing). Eventually, the NS dispatcher hands back to Amtrak at Porter, Indiana. IIRC, Amtrak "owns" the crossing with the South Shore Line, so the Amtrak dispatcher handles the train all the way to Kalamazoo. There, it's handed off to the Norfolk Southern dispatcher (though Amtrak is supposed to take this section over soon). At Battle Creek, it has to be handed to the CN dispatcher for just a couple of blocks and the station. Then back to NS (soon to be Amtrak). Then over to Conrail Shared Assets between Wayne and Dearborn. Then it gets even more complicated in the Detroit area, as Conrail and CN cross over each other repeatedly, and I have never figured out what the dance is there, and finally onto CN for the trip to Pontiac.