Train dispatcher using CETC, 1988.
Color photograph showing a train dispatcher at the Centralized Electrification and Traffic Control (CETC) center at Philadelphia 30th Street Station; image dates to February 1988.
- Photograph Details
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- Date Archived:
- April 22, 2011
- Geography:
- Northeast
- Decade:
- 1980s
- Data Format:
- Image
- Date Created:
- February 25, 1988
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A new Centralized Electrification and Traffic Control (CETC) center opened in Philadelphia in 1987. This 1988 image shows a train dispatcher using the CETC computers to control train routing rather than issuing instructions to local control towers.
In April 2012, the CETC center moved from Philadelphia to the Consolidated National Operations Center in Wilmington, Del. The move included migration to an updated system that improved operational safety of the dispatching system along with technical upgrades that improved the user interface.
Photo from the John Carten Collection.