Conrail Dispatcher tried to put my three mile long train on a two mile long siding long ago. I notified them multiple times as to our train length. Their paper work said different so who was I (the engineer) to tell them. After that fiasco they ordered me to take the a restricting signal at NK Tower at Oak Island with 5 minutes left on the clock. We outlawed while stretched thought 3 interlockings. They had multiple crews outlaw waiting for a relief crew to get to us in the middle of a snow storm. This ranked up there with when they ordered me to leave South Kearny on the Mail Train with three units without any fuel in the fuel tanks. As it was stated "You only have 3 cars, what do you need fuel for?" Sometimes it takes a little while for the Dispatchers to figure it all out.
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