Electric railway journal (1920) (14574825939)

Identifier: electricrailway551920newy (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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this extension,including a rather elaborate prepayment station. I un-derstand that the editors of this paper have arrangedfor a special article on the signal system to appear soon. The Emergency Fleet Corporation had financed thepurchase of fifty new cars for use in handling shipyardworkers and assisted in the financing of this track ex-tension to the yards on right-of-way furnished by theBethlehem corporation. As the sidings used by the Pennsylvania Railroad for freight tracks of the Bethlehem Steel Company, all ofwhich are protected by an electro-pneumatic signal andinterlocking plant which governs the movement oftrains on the electric tracks to and from the main line.The main line of the electric railway at this pointwas equipped some time ago with continuous track cir-cuit-controlled automatic block or spacing signals, andin order to handle safely, economically and without un-necessary delay the heavy traffic into and out of thenew branch an interlocking plant, with suitable sig-
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PARKED ELECTRIC AND STEAM TRAINS READY FOR THE 4 OCLOCK CROWDS passenger train service to the shipyard are located tothe west of the electric railway tracks, in order to makeroom for the construction of this spur it was necessaryto rearrange the yard tracks of the steel company andthe shipbuilding corporation and to relocate the spurtracks usec^oy the steam passenger trains. Involvedin this relocation was the moving of brick sheds, ap-proximately 1500 feet long, where furnace-lining brickswere stored. This one task itself was of no mean mag-nitude, particularly when performed under war con-ditions. The electric railway spur consists of a double track,terminating in a loop at the main entrance to the yards,with an inner loop track. The track crosses the Penn-sylvania main-line track to Sparrows Point and two nals and derails, was required. After careful studythe electro-pneumatic type of track circuit signal wasselected as one which would provide Safety with re-quired speed of operatio