. Official proceedings . em of signals is generally believjito be of English origin, it is a matter of record that it was inuse on an American railroad, now forming a part of the Penn-sylvania Railroad System in 1832. Soon after the Xew Castle and Frenchtown Railroad wasopened for steam traffic (it having been operated for two orthree years by horse power) the necessity for establishing asystem of signals became apparent. This pioneer road waslocated across the penin>ula composed of the southern part of *From a paper on Signals, bv J. Elfreth Watkins of the Penn-sylvania Railroad, 1899. 112
. Official proceedings . em of signals is generally believjito be of English origin, it is a matter of record that it was inuse on an American railroad, now forming a part of the Penn-sylvania Railroad System in 1832. Soon after the Xew Castle and Frenchtown Railroad wasopened for steam traffic (it having been operated for two orthree years by horse power) the necessity for establishing asystem of signals became apparent. This pioneer road waslocated across the penin>ula composed of the southern part of *From a paper on Signals, bv J. Elfreth Watkins of the Penn-sylvania Railroad, 1899. 112 Maryland and the State ol J)ela\vare and extended Xev/Castle, ini tlie Delaware river. K miles, to lM-enclU(.\vn. on theElk river, a tributary of Chesajjeake l!ay. iojes, thirty orthirty-live feet hi,hen tile train started frcmi either end tlie lla-man at the ter-minal station hoisted a white lla,<; to the tup ,,f the ])ole. The NSWCilSTLIiAND VKDViCOTOWN. MMMStpM^MWm PROPELIXD B7 A lOCOMOTTVi: laTGIKE, Leaves the Depot, at ^ CA8TLK, for FRE!^CtiTOW!>, U(»on tlic arrival of tlie Stcam-i>oat from Iliiladclpliiu, ut ;ibotit Half Past Bight oclock, Leaves FreDClitoHii at about Half-Past Ten TRAIN OF f>.|i:irt^ froni \iu Ca^llc. for FrfiK litow ii, <\rrv oxfiiine, {ov(ti ilic arrivalf now. //■«,» l»hil:..l.|(>hi:.. at :>l«nit Six ;k .. o., ^return :inu<s al»iii \m<: orlixli Taix- ot<T ilie ICo:iil ...Oo., for excursion o«4*r Ihtroad an«l l»;i • .»0 (Tills. V JJHU HI IM^-< rT H. BARU .§^€ Poster advertising New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad, issued June 1, 1833. 113 ilagman at the second station, whose duty it was to look throug-ha nautical telescope every few minutes during the. day, flag to a point a few feet from the top of the pole. The re-maining flagmen followed his example so th
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