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This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) board and operator at San Bernardino, California. Centralized Traffic Control is a system of control whereby the railroads employ a dispatcher at a central point, and the dispatcher remotely controls the signals and the routing of trains, and the engineer of a train must obey the signals. CTC bypassed the need for local operators and eliminated written (train) orders.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1945 and 1949
Item Number: 213260
Call Number: ATSF Series 2, #420.2-7155
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213260
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Employees - Train dispatcher
Collections - Photograph - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Date - 1940s
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Other States - California
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Employees - Train dispatcher
Type of Material - Photographs
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