Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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of posting run- b) chalking up a column of figures on the bulletin board, r by verbal or written instructions, ntst as ■ map ,,f the road presents the routes in a form more easil) and quickly undersl I than does a written description I In practice i daily applicable to posting schedules on single track interurbanelectric roads, I In- Worcester (Mass.) Consolidated Strict Railway tdiagrams for announcing runs at all its dispatching stations and thesystem will be made clear b) describing il as applied to the Fitch-burg division of the Worcestei company, (his division i- about ,?nmiles long and is in charge of Mi George II Burgess, dsuperintendent \ttcr the schedule for the season has Keen determined (in tliiscase a half hour service is given between Worcester and Fitchburg)the superintendent plots all the runs on a sheet as shown in Fig t, living cross section paper with .(-in. rulings fur the purpose. I he vertical line- designate intervals of time (in tin - case intervals LCOM/HSTER
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CASeVfiL Boris tom L/AfCOLMSr tro/ec£Sr£/f PIG. I-SIIPKRINTKNDKNTS RUN SHEET. breadth from what might have been even moreserious acci- lian lliat first mentioned. In each and every case it was menfrom the street railwa) field who wire the offenders and their igno-rance or disregard of the rules the cause of the accidents. Yetthese men were carefully selected from a large number of applicants and in intelligence were much above the average found in railways. Furthermore they had been carefully drilled andinstructed and passed an examination b) the above named expertdispatcher in the rules. NEW CASTLE & LOWELL ROAD OPENED. The \cw i istle (O.) >\ Lowell R R was opened for traffic February 15. foul cars being inn ml,, service. The line has sincebeen in regular operation and cars are run from Youngstown al intervals of one hour, the last one arriving at (0:30 in the evening.Mi. nip to New Castle is made in ii hours, but the schedule will he faster when the special cars an put in

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