I forgot to mention when they were running 6 trains they had two dispatch zones. The lines one through six that exist today were accompanied by another line of one through six. The location of this dispatch zone was where the fireman’s office is today, directly to the left of the current dispatch zone. There were also no gates to separate riders from trains. This all made it possible to run 5 and 6 trains with no problems.
This is all very interesting.
Do you know if Blazing Fury was initially set up like this as well? There is a corner of the Blazing Fury station that has been boxed off into another room, I thought it might have been part of the loading platform to begin with. You can see in this pic:
http://rcdb.com/ig501.htm?picture=2 (BF has 3 cars per train, but perhaps early on it had just 2 per train like FitH, hence there would have been enough room for a double dispatch station)