BULLETIN  North East West South

Fort Wayne Engineers' Club January's tour  - Thursday, January 21 at 7PM. 
Norfolk and Southern’s Lake Division dispatch center, 7315 Nelson Rd, Fort Wayne
We will be entering at door A9 which is on the North end of the building on the Easternmost lot on the property.  The Lake Division is NS's second largest division out of its eleven.  We will be touring the dispatch center which was renovated in late 2008/early 2009.  The Lake Division dispatch center is a former nickle plate open air round house for steam engines.  There is currently glass block and brick covering the area where the former steam engine tracks were; these tracks merged on the east side of the building at a locomotive turn table for the 1 way steam engines, if it isn't too dark the turntable should be visible to us.  In the 1970's the Chicago and Fostoria dispatchers worked from little rooms in this building, they would have a single desk and run the operation using switches and a single phone.  After the multimillion dollar renovation all lake division dispatchers work from here and this building now employs approximately 50 people.

This tour is limited in participants, so RSVP to fortwayneengineersclub@yahoo.com by Tuesday January 19th.