What is "despatcher"

Usage examples of "despatcher".

Need I say how proud I felt when I received a message from the Chief Despatcher telling me to report for duty that night?

If the despatcher had sent according to my ability just then he would have sent that order by train mail.

But something had to be done, so I finally told the despatcher that Nos.

I heard the despatcher say that the Flyer was thirty minutes late from the west.

I had recovered myself sufficiently, I telegraphed the despatcher what had happened, and the chief, who in the meantime had been sent for, told me to close up my office, and come east on the flyer, to report for duty in the morning in his office as copy operator.

The general manager, the general superintendent, and a number of the division superintendents resigned to save dismissal, and my friend the chief despatcher went with them.

Louis one bright morning and went up to the office of the chief despatcher of the Q.

He had none to give me but wired the chief despatcher at Big Rock, and in answer thereto I was sent the next morning to Healyville.

I stayed there just three days, and then, fortunately, the chief despatcher ordered me to come to his office.

One night when I was sitting up a little late I heard the despatcher give Ned an order for a train that ordinarily would not stop there.

I thought I had the making of a good despatcher in me, and determined to try for that place.

This appeared to be a great chance to satisfy my ambition to become a despatcher, so I gladly accepted, and in a few days was safely ensconced in my new position.

I was beginning to think that my education as a despatcher was complete, and was thinking of asking for the next vacancy, when a little incident occurred that entirely disabused my mind.

They do their part and do it well, but the brains of the machine are up in the little office and are all incorporated in the despatcher on duty.

The swift run could not be made, and the train kept running without a stop, if it were not for the fact that the despatcher puts trains on the sidetrack so that the special need not be delayed, and he does it in such a manner that the regular business of the road shall not be interfered with.