. Electric railway journal . g necessarily given in allconversation and written matter relating to a specific sid-ing. To illustrate, crew A, eastbound, and crew B, west-bound, are due by schedule to meet at siding No. 4. CrewA become delayed by the drawbridge between New Bed-ford and station 1, call up and report themselves at sta-tion 1, over a certain number of minutes late, it being fixedby rule that any car becoming delayed over a certain num-ber of minutes shall immediately notify the dispatcher, sothat opposing cars may be moved up against the delayedcar, thereby saving scheduled time t
. Electric railway journal . g necessarily given in allconversation and written matter relating to a specific sid-ing. To illustrate, crew A, eastbound, and crew B, west-bound, are due by schedule to meet at siding No. 4. CrewA become delayed by the drawbridge between New Bed-ford and station 1, call up and report themselves at sta-tion 1, over a certain number of minutes late, it being fixedby rule that any car becoming delayed over a certain num-ber of minutes shall immediately notify the dispatcher, sothat opposing cars may be moved up against the delayedcar, thereby saving scheduled time to all others. Crew A thus reporting themselves at No. 1 are given Car Crew Reporting at Signal a train order in regular form to meet Crew B at No. 3;signal at No. 3 is usually set then as a clincher or safe-guard against Crew As forgetting their orders, shouldthey arrive at No. 3 first. Immediately after giving theorder at No. 1, the signal at No. 4 is set, and as soon asCrew B arrive at No. 4 they see the signal is down and. February 20, 1909.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 343 immediately call for orders, and are given the same orderthat was given to Crew A at No. 1; the first car arrivingat No. 3 is told to restore signal and wait for the op-posing car, reporting the same when it is in sight. Bythis method the cars are correctly reported to the dis-patcher so that he knows exactly what sort of time they arerunning on. No car is allowed to wait over three minutesat a meeting point without reporting. Thus the companyobtains correct reports of the departures of cars from meet-ing points when they are running late. In handling theexpress car, line car and construction service, the com-pany runs them wild almost wholly, working them closeup to the regulars time entirely on the double train or-der principle, and saving large amounts of time that wouldotherwise have to be wasted in running properly clear ofthe schedule time of superior cars. Another use to which the system is put is in
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