Show train dispatchers responsibilities very few travelers think that their lives are in the hinds of i man who in authority is the train dispatcher A railroad superintendent has this to say about the matter why an order signed by the president of the road or from the president of the united states to runa train a certain way would be disregarded by trainmen A s long 03 train are running on schedule time the work i not 80 difficult hut as saon as one or more are delayed which ie constantly happening the labor then becomer specially arduous the delay of a single train may disarrange a whole schedule a change in the running time ot all for instance a north biundi train ia thirty minutes late instead of delaying trains running south the dispatcher would order them perhaps on another station and there pass he must grasp the situation at once qu akly think out a plan of operation and act immediately the least possible time will bo lost it Is a mighty game ot checkers concluded the in which the 1 are ponderous trains ot cars and where a false move does not taking back and over again but means a disastrous wreck and a probable losa of life YOU can appreciate to a certain extent the immense responsibility greetin upon cheso men exchange |