Preparing train orders, 1986.
Color photograph showing Operator Jack Robertson preparing train orders; image dates to 1986.
- Photograph Details
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- Date Archived:
- April 22, 2011
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
- Data Format:
- Image
- Date Created:
- 1986
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Operator Jack Robertson prepares train orders at Washington Union Station in 1986. The next year, Amtrak opened the Centralized Electrification and Traffic Control (CETC) center at Philadelphia 30th Street Station, largely eliminating the need for tower operators to manually create train orders.
Photograph by Doug Riddell; courtesy of Doug Riddell.
