Wholly Cows - who knew?
Thanks for sharing this image - a world of insight!
AND, nicely captured!
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| Posted by GeorgeO on February 7, 2007 | |
Whoa! Now that's impressive. Kinda reminiscent of Launch Control. Thanks for sharing.
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I worked at JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) in California in the eighties...their mission control centers are nothing like this at all, Yikes! Thanks for sharing.
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Wow, wonder if you can patch TV into any of the screens...
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They can put on basically anything on any screen. They have the weather channel on when they've got severe weather affecting their system.
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That's too cool. I never even thought something like this existed for railroads!
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| Posted by on February 7, 2007 | |
You'd think that out of that many screens, one of them would be looking at RailPictures.net.
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Thats so cool! I'm shocked though w/ the info on the big blue screens. They don't seem to have any useful info to daily operations. I guess motivation or something w/ on time performance. Maybe some natural light would be better than deathly screens. That would be SO cool to get a patch of whats going on. Gives you nearly the same info as listening to the scanner for 2 hrs w/ a pad and paper. Anyone heard of ACTS Monitor?
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I've been there before, very cool place. The building is modeled like an old railroad station
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Very neat picture! Thanks for sharing.
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I know they can look up anything on those computers, I've talked to a dispatcher who uses one of his computers to view streaming webcams of the main yard and Passenger terminal in his territory.
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| Posted by on February 12, 2007 | |
It's funny.. A nearly Nation Wide rail system is controlled and observed from a 4-6 acre building, How times have changed indeed. It is a neat sight though, I enjoyed looking at details, thanks for sharing!
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| Posted by kylek on May 2, 2007 | |
Thanks for this pic... I am heading down to Ft. Worth in August for dispatch traning, I am hoping to land right here after the 16 weeks are finished!
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| Posted by rhovak on November 3, 2009 | |
What!? All those screens and nobody playing any games... You could have one heck of a LAN party in that place, let me tell you! I'm supprised they let you take this photo but I'm glad they did. Thanks for posting it! Good job!
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