"Consolidated" Rail Corporation
The windows shuttered, and the doors locked at BD Cabin in Binghamton, NY. It was around two years earlier that the area was cut into the dispatchers board in Hornell making BD a lonely place to visit. The operators there were usually friendly and would get you in out of the rain if need be. The little cubical covered all of the immediate area of Binghamton and the S&U up to Chenango Forks. On this day Conrail BUOI and OIBU meet with help from 100 miles to the west. The consolidation of towers and cabins into the dispatchers offices hundreds, even thousand of miles away, on not just Conrail, but all US railways would spread over the next two decades creating long distance love affairs over the radio instead of a friendly "highball" trackside.
Fellow Flickr member Mike Stellpflug had posted this unusual photo of Charlie Decker, getting orders ready at BD. He was the regular daytime operator in the late years of the cabin.
conrailphotos.thecrhs.org/photos/bd-tower-binghamton-ny-4...
"Consolidated" Rail Corporation
The windows shuttered, and the doors locked at BD Cabin in Binghamton, NY. It was around two years earlier that the area was cut into the dispatchers board in Hornell making BD a lonely place to visit. The operators there were usually friendly and would get you in out of the rain if need be. The little cubical covered all of the immediate area of Binghamton and the S&U up to Chenango Forks. On this day Conrail BUOI and OIBU meet with help from 100 miles to the west. The consolidation of towers and cabins into the dispatchers offices hundreds, even thousand of miles away, on not just Conrail, but all US railways would spread over the next two decades creating long distance love affairs over the radio instead of a friendly "highball" trackside.
Fellow Flickr member Mike Stellpflug had posted this unusual photo of Charlie Decker, getting orders ready at BD. He was the regular daytime operator in the late years of the cabin.
conrailphotos.thecrhs.org/photos/bd-tower-binghamton-ny-4...