Roughly speaking Wilmington CETC controls Holmsburg and South to just short of Washington Union Station (and Keystone Corridor). New York CETC controls New Rochelle to Harold and NJ to Holmsburg (and Empire Corridor Poughkeepsie to Hoffmans IIRC). Boston CETC controls Boston to East Heaven (actually Mill River).
Actually the currently available rail simulators do a pretty good job - TSW for eye candy although its physics not as good, Run8 for OK graphics and good physics, Train Simulator and Open Rails (which is freeware) in between. Most of them can be run with a Raildriver console. I use Open Rails with a keyboard and have several Amtrak routes including parts of the NEC, and Surfliner.
To include my home territory Boston CETC also controls Mill River to Springfield.Roughly speaking Wilmington CETC controls Holmsburg and South to just short of Washington Union Station (and Keystone Corridor). New York CETC controls New Rochelle to Harold and NJ to Holmsburg (and Empire Corridor Poughkeepsie to Hoffmans IIRC). Boston CETC controls Boston to East Heaven (actually Mill River).
NYPSCC controls Hudson Tunnels to Harold Interlocking including Penn Station and CP Plaza towards GCT. I am not sure whether NYPS to DV (or whatever it is called these days) is controlled by a desk at NYPSCC or a the NY CETC. Unlike the CETCs the NYPSCC is jointly controlled by Amtrak and LIRR.
I am sure @Acela150 and @Thirdrail7 will slap me around wherever I am wrong and provide more accurate information.
I have run the old MSTS/Open Rails a few times while on the routes that have Amtrak trains such as the Piedmont/Carolinian from Charlotte-Greensboro-Raleigh and the NEC from DC to Philly. I also have played with the RFP from DC to Richmond.
Roughly speaking Wilmington CETC controls Holmsburg and South to just short of Washington Union Station (and Keystone Corridor). New York CETC controls New Rochelle to Harold and NJ to Holmsburg (and Empire Corridor Poughkeepsie to Hoffmans IIRC). Boston CETC controls Boston to East Heaven (actually Mill River).
NYPSCC controls Hudson Tunnels to Harold Interlocking including Penn Station and CP Plaza towards GCT. I am not sure whether NYPS to DV (or whatever it is called these days) is controlled by a desk at NYPSCC or a the NY CETC. Unlike the CETCs the NYPSCC is jointly controlled by Amtrak and LIRR.
I am sure @Acela150 and @Thirdrail7 will slap me around wherever I am wrong and provide more accurate information.
Yes. The Entire NY Dispatching Office is in the same place and in the same room. We call it "40 Office".To include my home territory Boston CETC also controls Mill River to Springfield.
NY CETC is in the same room as NYPSCC correct?
How is Springfield itself handled, since tracks 1 and 2 are CSX. I assume CETC controls at least as far as Sweeney (the connection to the Conn River line used by the Vermonter) but how about the station itself?To include my home territory Boston CETC also controls Mill River to Springfield.
I suspect that on the Empire side, PSCC controls CP Empire. I don't know who if some desk in NYCTEC controls the rest of the Empire connection to what used to be DV.
They control the station tracks 4-8. Basically from Sweeney if you look on Google earth they control that southern most track over the arches and into the station which then becomes Spring interlocking and tracks 4-8. Amtrak controls all that. Use of station tracks 2A and 2 as well as use of the wye does involve CSX dispatch. North of the wye is Pan Am/Springfield Terminal district 3 dispatcher - Pan Am D3 is about to become the Berkshire and Eastern (owned by G&W and they’ll be taking over the district 3 dispatch.)
