Last year some of the CSX dispatcher desks were moved to Indianapolis and Chicago from Jacksonville or at least I thought they were. Were there some additional desks that were to be moved in 2007 and 2008 to these same or other locations?
Rumors have been going around that the Jacksonville center will be broken up. So far they are just rumors, and no more moves are planned as of now.
So, if the rumors were true, CSX would no longer be CTC?
No they would just move the control station for the CTC to a new location. Besides Jacksonville, CSX has three small dispatching offices in Albany, Chicago and Indy. These offices control CTC territory as well as Jacksonville.
Ohhhh… I didn’t know that.
yeah and the split is at deshler between 3 dispatchers.makes for some interesting conversations between crews and dispatchers.
stay safe
Joe
Redundency and security. After several close calls during the last few hurricane seasons, CSX realized have all the dispatchers in one place is bad. So the plan is to have at least 4 and possibly 6 regional dispatch centers, like Conrail did.
Nick