Portage/Summit/Stark Railroad frequencies

[85chevy4x4]

Does anyone know accurate railroad frequencies for Stark and Portage and Summit that are current by chance?

 

[Nasby]

NSRR: 161.070, 161.055, 160.980 (yard)

CSX: 160.230, 160.320, 160.785 (MofW)

W&LE: 161.025, 160.680, 161.310 (yard)

ABC RR: 160.650

RJ CormanRR: 160.455

 

[wa8pyr]

W&LE: 161.025, 160.680, 161.310 (yard)

Is 161.025 road/dispatch west of Brewster and 160.680 east of Brewster?

 

[Nasby]

Is 161.025 road/dispatch west of Brewster and 160.680 east of Brewster?

Correct

 

[cbehr91]

Add 160.215 for Ohio Central. To clarify some stuff for W≤ the yard channel at Brewster is 161.340, 161.310 is the yard channel at Brittain (Akron), Medina, and Gambrinus (Canton). Keep in mind all the shortlines can go hours without activity.

 

[wa8pyr]

Add 160.215 for Ohio Central. To clarify some stuff for W≤ the yard channel at Brewster is 161.340, 161.310 is the yard channel at Brittain (Akron), Medina, and Gambrinus (Canton). Keep in mind all the shortlines can go hours without activity.

Thanks!

 

[dlwtrunked]

Though not addressing his question but related: When I lived in Portage County some 50 years ago and listened to railroad frequencies there, I came to learn that one dispatcher was located in downtown Akron somewhere in the general vicinity of the library. In listening, I forget how he identified, I was able to locate the immediate area (I think he IDed with an intersection). But there were no railroad tracks near there. I went to that intersection whihc I think was near E Market Street downtown and found an old building with an open door on a corner. I called out and a voice said come in and go up the stairs. I walked through a dirty room with old abandoned jar type batteries and this was around 1970 when those would have been long out of use. Turns out he was there as from there on high ground, he could see two railroad tracks that he need to watch.

 

[cbehr91]

Though not addressing his question but related: When I lived in Portage County some 50 years ago and listened to railroad frequencies there, I came to learn that one dispatcher was located in downtown Akron somewhere in the general vicinity of the library. In listening, I forget how he identified, I was able to locate the immediate area (I think he IDed with an intersection). But there were no railroad tracks near there. I went to that intersection whihc I think was near E Market Street downtown and found an old building with an open door on a corner. I called out and a voice said come in and go up the stairs. I walked through a dirty room with old abandoned jar type batteries and this was around 1970 when those would have been long out of use. Turns out he was there as from there on high ground, he could see two railroad tracks that he need to watch.

There used to be a B&O dispatching office and division headquarters in Akron.

 

[dlwtrunked]

There used to be a B&O dispatching office and division headquarters in Akron.

the place I visited looked too run down and with only one person was certainly not likely to have been a division headquarters back then. I know I also visited another dispatch facility back then that may have been in Barberton.

 

[wa8pyr]

the place I visited looked too run down and with only one person was certainly not likely to have been a division headquarters back then. I know I also visited another dispatch facility back then that may have been in Barberton.

If it was Market St and only one person, that would have been JO Tower, which controlled the crossing of the Erie RR mainline with the joint PRR/B&O line under Market St.

Assuming this is what you saw...
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[dlwtrunked]

If it was Market St and only one person, that would have been JO Tower, which controlled the crossing of the Erie RR mainline with the joint PRR/B&O line under Market St.

Assuming this is what you saw...
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I am sure that is it but...it has been 50 years or so ago and on a corner and I had to go up stairs were the people were. That certainly looked like what I expect I was at.

 

[cbehr91]

the place I visited looked too run down and with only one person was certainly not likely to have been a division headquarters back then. I know I also visited another dispatch facility back then that may have been in Barberton.

I overlooked that they were working solo. The person in JO Tower wasn't a dispatcher in terms of their job title, but would expedite train movements, messages and forms to trains under the direction of a dispatcher (or dispatchers since three railroads converged there).