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Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's dispatcher Lee Webster works the C.T.C. panel in Fresno, California, that controls the territory between Fresno and Bakersfield, California. Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) 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: April 3, 1952
Item Number: 50136
Call Number: ATSF Series 8, #92-2K
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 50136
Business and Industry - Railroad - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Business and Industry - Railroad - Employees - Train dispatcher
Business and Industry - Railroad - Facilities - Train dispatcher office
Collections - Photograph - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Date - 1950s - 1952
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Other States - California - Bakersfield
Places - Other States - California - Fresno
Thematic Time Period - Eisenhower Years, 1946 - 1961
Transportation - Railroads - Companies - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Transportation - Railroads - Employees - Train dispatcher
Transportation - Railroads - Facilities - Train dispatcher office
Type of Material - Photographs
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