Absolutely NOT DeWitt...

Here at the timetable East end of the siding that is situated in near the town of DeWitt, the control point is NOT named DeWitt as one would expect -- no, no, no, no...that's the West end of the siding. And, at some point in the 90's the NS intentionally changed their naming of control points so that "ends" of Sidings aren't just "west" and "east" (or "north" and "south" as the case may be) of the same base siding name. The control points had to be named something completely dissimilar, ostensibly (I guess) to avoid them somehow being mixed up. Of course, at the same time, it removes the handy knowledge that (say) "West BFE" and "East BFE" were the corresponding ends of the same siding -- now one must "just know" that Mettler is the control point at the other end of the siding from DeWitt. And, one must "just know" this for each and every siding on the District. Which, never really made a lot of sense to me.

 

-KCS ES44AC #4784, SD70ACe #4157 leading power

-NS Train #I24

-NS (ex-Wabash) Kansas City District, CP 192.3 Mettler

-Along US 24, DeWitt, MO

-November 26, 2021

 

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