Electric railway journal (1916) (14736320656)

Identifier: electricrailway471916newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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MAY 13, 1916) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 891 Signaling in the Public Service Terminal To Secure the Greatest Safety and Rapidity of Car Movement, an Interlocking Signal SystemWas Adopted—Comprehensive Instructions, Explaining the System andIts Operation, Are Issued to Trainmen By J. W. BROWNAssistant Superintendent Public Service Railway, Newark, N. J. r WHEN cars began using the Public Service ter-minal, Newark, N. J., on April 30, 1916, a familiarfigure in street railway work was absent. No switchboy, with his clanking iron, ran from point to point,directing cars into their proper tracks; instead theexhaust of compressed air and the flashing of red, yellowand green lights proclaimed the passing of the switch-iron brigade. The determination to use centralizedcontrol of car movements in and out of the terminal wasin keeping with the dominant thought, which governedthe entire terminal plan, that only the best in modernconstruction and methods would enter into its erectionand operation.