Track Warrants
Clearance to a given section of track is granted by using a track warrant. Using the prototype track warrant as a guide, here is a simplified version we use on the Siskiyou Line:
Conductor: "Roseburg Dispatcher, this is Conductor Smith in Eugene, requesting clearance for SP 4408 to depart westbound, final destination Medford. Over."
Dispatcher: "4408W, this is Roseburg Dispatch. Tell me about your train. Over."
Conductor: "Dispatch, we have 4 locos, 4408, 4411, 4302, and 4407. We have 28 cars and a caboose. Over."
Dispatcher: "Okay, 4408W, are you ready to copy a track warrant? Over."
Conductor: "Affirmative, Dispatch. Ready to copy. Over."
Dispatcher: "This is track warrant number 101, Date, September 5, 1980. To: 4408W at Eugene. Check box 2. Proceed from Springfield Junction to Roseburg. Check box 8. Clear main track at last named point. Over."
Conductor: "We have track warrant number 101, Date, September 5, 1980. To: 4408W at Eugene. Check box 2. Proceed from Springfield Junction to Roseburg. Check box 8. Clear main track at last named point. Over."
Dispatcher: "That's OK at 12:13pm. Dispatcher, JDF. Over."
Conductor: "OK at 12:13pm. Dispatcher, JDF. Copied by RWJ. Over."
Dispatcher: "Roseburg Dispatch, over and out."
Conductor: "SP 4408W, over and out."Various through and local trains were run on the prototype Siskiyou Line in the 1980s. The trains run during an operating session on the model are based on what the prototype actually ran during the eighties.
Trains run Monday through Saturday (click on name for info):
- Siskiyou Line West, EUMEY
- Siskiyou Line East, MEEUY
- "Seagull" West, EUROY
- "Seagull" East, ROEUY
- Coos Bay Hauler West, EUCBY
- Coos Bay Hauler East, CBEUY
- "Chipper" West, EUMEL
- "Chipper" East, MEEUL
- Dole Turn (Twice a day, "Fruit Loop"), RODIT
Trains run Monday through Friday (click on name for info):
- Yoncalla Turn, EUYCT
- Oakland Turn ("Rice Hill Rocket"), ROOKT
- Myrtle Point Turn, CBMPT
- Riddle Turn, RORIT
