Just as a side note to the discussion taking place aobut the operation of and who has control of Tolono. In the wee hours one morning I was returning from Chicago on 317. We were just through Melvin on the Gilman Dist. of the IC and could see that we didn't have the lineup at Gibson City. We keyed up the IC dispatcher, who told us he didn't know if our (NS) dispatcher was ready for us as he would not answer the phone. He asked us to go to our channel and try to raise him and tell him the IC wanted to talk to him. We couldn't get our ds to answer us either, and after trying several times, gave up and went back to the IC channel. We called the IC ds who answered and said thanks for trying, but he had just taken Tolono away from the NS ds, and he would be calling soon. No sooner had he said that, he said, "oh, there's the hot line to decatur, I guess he wants to talk now." Kent ------------------------------------------------------ This is the Illiana Railroad Discussion List. For more info visit http://www.railcenter.com/illiana ------------------------------------------------------
