C&O terminal jobs would have been the West Side Job and the Crossing Job (CX) crossing the river. There was also a Nodular Job up the Bay City line as well as 75/76 which went to BC and back. There was also a S. Saginaw Job and a Steering Gear Job, plus yard engines working at Wadsworth, Norman St and 8th St yards switching out inbounds and building outbounds.
I wasn't in Saginaw in NYC/PC days, but I know they ran to Detroit BD-2 (out of Wenona) and north inbound DB-1. They also used to have a Jackson-Bay City train up and back. At least one yard job in town during the day.
After GTW took over, they ran Durand-BC and return trains 471/470 and sometimes a Saginaw turn out of Durand. They had two yard jobs working, one on the west side and one on the east side that also went out toward Denmark Jct.
If you add in a few grain and coal trains, I'd say you could be up to around 40-50 trains and yard jobs a day!
As dispatchers, we didn't really have to coordinate anything with "other lines" dispatchers. Our trains to/from Paines had to get permission from the GTW (previously from the PC operator at Genesee St), but that was obtained through the operator at Mershon. Both we and the operators at Wash Ave had to work closely sometimes with the yardmasters in handling the yard jobs when they needed to occupy a main or signaled track that we controlled.
On the C&O, we had facilities for loading unit grain trains at Saginaw, Gilford, Elkton, Pigeon, Brown City, Hemlock and Breckenridge/Wheeler. Of course coal was Consumers in Essexville and sometimes we also had the Dow Coal as well as to the PH&D.
A good time was had by all!
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