Nostalgia & History > At the Tucson Amtrak Station

I saw this at the Tucson Amtrak Station.

What tower did this come from?

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Railroad Festival

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A few more photos

Jerry Martin
Los Angeles, CA
Central Coast Railroad Festival

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No tower. It sat on the upper floor of the Tucson depot when there was a DS office, before the office moved to Roseville. The board did not make the trip to Roseville and was donated to the Arizona Railway Museum in Chandler, Arizona.

The Gila Subdivision CTC board has come home.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/13/18 10:18 by BCHellman.

Back in the 1970; when I visited the facility, it was in a separate CTC building east of the Station.

Gila Sub.. Yuma to Tucson

Is this still at the Tucson depot on display? Wondering when you took those
really interesting photos. Thanks for showing us here. Lots of great
dispatching equipment history there.

mundo Wrote:
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> Back in the 1970; when I visited the facility, it
> was in a separate CTC building east of the
> Station.


OK. Didn't know the boards sat in a separate building. The paper job sat on the second floor just above the letters "Tuscon" on front of the Tucson depot.

BCHellman Wrote:
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> No tower. It sat on the upper floor of the Tucson
> depot when there was a DS office, before the
> office moved to Roseville. The board did not make
> the trip to Roseville and was donated to the
> Arizona Railway Museum in Chandler, Arizona.
>
> The Gila Subdivision CTC board has come home.

AAH that sounds like the former ATSF San Bernardino CAL dispatch office of the 1980s which
was just upstairs from the main San bernardino CA Depot.
This was a Regional dispatch office for the ATSF.
---Daniel

The Plane pic makes as much sense as ____ being our --------!...SHM

Very cool!! Thanks for sharing your photos.

A previous post on the subject...

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?4,4279662,4280252#msg-4280252

And a picture of the information they have there on display with machine.

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Couldn’t,t read the tabs, so I thought the board was just the West End. Didn’t,t realize it included the East end.

I can almost hear Vance Shirley (daylight dispatcher) on that board. He would talk to someone,
then leave the mike open and sort of talk to himself out loud about where he might make other
meets. Vance was a pretty good dispatcher and pleasant to work with.