. Annual report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois . e installed by theEowell-Potter Safety Stop Company at Hawley. where the main track of theSt. Louis, Peoria & Northern Railway Company crosses two (2) spurs of thePeoria, Decatur & Evansville Railway Company, as shown on the plansmarked Exhibit A on file in this office. As marking the first device of this kind in the world, where the principlesof automatic interlocking with safety stops is applied to a grade railwaycrossing, a detailed description of this device at this time is very you are well aw
. Annual report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois . e installed by theEowell-Potter Safety Stop Company at Hawley. where the main track of theSt. Louis, Peoria & Northern Railway Company crosses two (2) spurs of thePeoria, Decatur & Evansville Railway Company, as shown on the plansmarked Exhibit A on file in this office. As marking the first device of this kind in the world, where the principlesof automatic interlocking with safety stops is applied to a grade railwaycrossing, a detailed description of this device at this time is very you are well aware, the principle features ef the Rowell-Potter device isthe automatic brake setting apparatus as a substitute for derails. In this easethere is a combination of both brake setting apparatus and derails, the trackof the St. L., P. &N. Ry Co. being equipped with the brake setting apparatus,■while the tracks of the P., D. & E. Ry Co. are provided wit^ the customaryderails, and all operated automatically, including all signals used in connec-tion with the The St. P. & N. Railway is a sinp-le track road crossing two spurs of theP., D. & E. Ry Co., as shown in the diagram which here follows:
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