I've seen plenty of CTC panels, and sat in with dispatchers using computer screens.  What I haven't seen (as far as I can remember, anyway) is a dispatcher's desk from the train order days.  I know the operators would have a telegraph (later a telephone), and I'm guessing the dispatcher would as well, but what else?  Was there any sort of route map?  Just a dig desk with plenty of cubbyholes and slots/drawers for various bits of paperwork?  How did he keep track of which trains had authority on a given piece of track?

I went into one of the local model shops yesterday to find an S or O scale figure to use as a statue on my N Scale Green Town Railway. There is a triangular space where Glen Rock runs between Washington and Park which I knew would be a small grassed area and I thought a statue would be a fitting focal point there.

1. How would pulp be shipped to a converting paper mill in the 1950's-1960's? I want to set up an unloading point to receive pulp. What would the product look like and how would it have been handled? I'm assuming it would arrive aboard boxcars or maybe even empty-return reefers.

To All: Thanks to Dennis Austin for the answer to the question as to the railroad that had the slogan, "The North West Route". I do not believe it was the C&NW, but Dennis' answer the Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern RR.

Do All agree?  Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis rail Group Layout