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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ement would be to divide the road intoabsolute or permissive blocks with a telephone instrument at eachturnout from which a car crew when off schedule could call themain office for instructions. In the absence of a block signal orders for each car at every turnout; and the Toledo, Fremont &Xorwalk Ky.. where the dispatcher gives orders unly when ears areoff schedule. As adding to the general fund of information on the subject wegive at tltis time an outline of the methods employed on the Washington, Alexandria & Mt. Vernon Ry. Dispatching on this road isdone entirely by telegraph and the rules from which we quote arcihe suite as those adopted by the Pennsylvania R. R.. with suchmodifications in terminology and details as arc necessary to meetthe needs of an electric railroad. The Washington, Alexandria & Mt. Vernon Ry., with its branches,is about 26 miles long, most of which is single track with turnouts.It is the practice here to run trains comprising one 40-ft. motor car
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in.. 1 thai: IN THK WASHINGTON. ALKXANURIA & MT. VI.RNON RY. satisfactory to all. opinion be divided as regards the relative merits of the ti ind the telegraph for dispatching purposes. Where telephones have been installed it is pointed outthat the dispatcher is brought into much closer touch with thetrain crews; his orders are given verbally directly to the men whoarc to execute them; qu isked ind 1 cplanations given more readily by telephone than by tel md the telephoni iii l.e maintained at li expense, and it does itrire operators at each instrument In favor of tin telegraph irged that written records of • tge, or ordi 1, are more easily secured at at least two points on the line for reference,comparison or checking; the telegraph line and instruments arc lesssusceptible to derangement than the telep nil as far as exp. cerned it is pointed out that the telegraph opcra- mtagc for selling tickets, tak-ing cha urban stations, and filling othei duties inflicting with their dul (i

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