By Peter De Keles

Author  Bio For those of you that "Operate" your railroad here's a Hawaiian Plantation method you could try.

Title:	Lihu'e Plantation's radio-controlled train dispatching system
Publication:	The Garden Island
Date:	12/07/12
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Category	Real Trains
Overview	The Lihu'e Plantation locomotive "Lei Ilima" with its crew, circa 1950s. Locomotive engineers were required to stop their trains at every siding along the track, get off the train and telephone their location to the dispatcher at the Lihu'e Mill marshaling yard. Engineers would then be told over the phone by the dispatcher either to remain at the siding for an oncoming train to pass, or proceed ahead. This would add a different twist to an operating session if your radio system went "Down".
URL Link	Link to Full Story - Might still not be available online.
Click to download the attached file(s): PDF copy of story (68KB)

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Train Movement Control

Stopping and calling is not a lot different from telegraph controlled movements when you think about it. The radio was a big turning point in controlling train movements. Today on our 37-acre layout, if we cannot reach each other on the radio due to the terrain, we pull out sell phones and make a call... :)

Rick Henderson - 12/07/2012 - 13:40

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