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Updated: May 13, 2025
This is a grand achievement, the sum of many acts of individual courage, persistence and hope. For 13 years, Elaine Kinslow of Indianapolis, Indiana was on and off welfare. Today she's a dispatcher with a van company. She's saved enough money to move her family into a good neighborhood. And she's helping other welfare recipients go to work.
"But," she added more brightly when she saw the cloud of gloom settle blacker than before on his face, and remembered that he felt himself at least partly to blame, "it helps a lot to have the law all on our side, and " She had to go then, because the dispatcher was calling, and she knew it must be a train order.
A new world seemed to open out before him in which aspirations, ambitions, longings all were a reality. A key! That was real railroading, the top-notch of railroading, too. First an operator, and then a dispatcher, and and and then his face fell, and the vision faded. "How'd I get a chance to learn?" he said miserably. "Who'd teach me?"
"Do you use the electric or pneumatic signals?" "No, sir." "Have you a double track?" "No." "Well, of course, you have a train dispatcher, and run all trains by telegraph?" "No." "I see you have no brakeman. How do you flag the rear of your train if you are stopped from any cause between stations?" "We don't flag." "Indeed! What a way to run a railroad!
There was not a jar as the train moved off the siding and over the switches to the main line. The dispatcher had arranged a clear road for them. Tom knew that he had a free track ahead of him a level of ninety-odd miles to the Hammon yards. As he passed the Hendrickton shops he touched the siren lever for a moment, and the shrill voice of the Hercules 0001 bade the town good-bye.
It has often been remarked by philosophers and philistines alike that the commonest facts of existence escape our attention until they are impressed upon it in some unusual way. For example I knew nothing of the sovereign powers of citronella as a mosquito dispatcher until a plague of the insects drove me to make enquiries of a chemist.
He maybe works there ten years, and his work shows so the officials recognize it, and he never makes a mistake in his telegraphing, and some day they call him into headquarters during a rush, to help the train dispatcher, and then he has to move into the city and watch trains on thousands of miles of road, to see that they don't get together, as train dispatcher.
"You can stay here jus’ ’s long as you like, ma’am," he yelled, in the voice of a train dispatcher. "I’ll send your friends in when they inquiahs." Aunt Mary eyed him gratefully, and gave him the nickel which she had been carefully holding in her hand for the last hour. Then she looked up, and saw Jack!
When even that was gone, she turned from the window, and stood for a long minute with her hands pressed tightly over her face. She was trying to think, but instead she found herself listening intently to the monotonous "Ah-h-CHUCK! ah-h-CHUCK!" of the steam pump down the track, and to the spasmodic clicking of an order from the dispatcher to the passenger train two stations to the west.
And here, it was Bob Donkin, the night dispatcher, as white a man as his record after years of train-handling was white, a railroad man from the ground up if there ever was one, and one of the best, who set Toddles but we'll come to that presently. We've got our "clearance" now, and we're off with "rights" through.
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