In the March 1, 1957 Book Rules of the Transportation Department, page eight, a Station is defined as "A place designated on the time table by a name." Bill Pollard's post about the name change from Eavadale Junction, MP T266.8, to Delpro prompts this exercise. http://www.frisco.org/shipit/index.php?threads/evadale-junction-vs-delpro.15285/#post-99600 Did the Frisco change the name of other stations. It did happen, but it was a rare thing. Off the top of my head, I can think of three changes. 1. Southern Junction, MP C203.0, to MK Junction, occurred during 1949, when the interlocking plant at Southern Jct. was replaced with CTC. "MK" was the telegraphic call for Southern Junction. 2. Weleetka, MP E494.7, to Fred happened between 1938 and 1946. There doesn't appear to be any major track changes, and I don't know who Fred is. Was there confusion with Wetumka, MP E504.4. 3. Quincy, MP C620.6, to Judge, MP C620.3 occurred post-1942. Again, I don't see any major changes to the track configuration. I have heard some opine that the head-on collision between 238 and 107, Feb 16, 1939 was caused by confusion with a Form E order... Quincy and Quinton, MP C712.5. The ICC accident report doesn't support this conjecture, but there may have been a problem with the two station names. I don't know where the name, Judge, originated. Are there other name changes?
There were some name changes on the Frisco's Fort Smith Sub along with the St. Paul Branch. See below: Andre
If TTO (timetable/train order) was used, there should not have been an issue due to the requirement of spelling out place names in train orders during dictation and read-back, i.e. Quincy Q U I N C Y and Quinton Q U I N T O N.
