. Official proceedings . om track Xo. 2 at S. G. to Xo. :) and from Xo. 3l>ack again to Xo. 2 at S. O. The Xew Sork Central and Xew^ York, Xew Haven <^Hartford enter Xew York over a four-track line extending fromMott Haven junction to Grand Central Terminal, a distance offive miles. The Grand Central Terminal is a two level passen-ger station with 3? miles of track. The travel through thisstation recpures the movement of 130 trains a day. During therush hours the traffic reaches a total movement of rtl trains inone hour, or a train every Tl seconds. This heaxy traftic madeit necessary to
. Official proceedings . om track Xo. 2 at S. G. to Xo. :) and from Xo. 3l>ack again to Xo. 2 at S. O. The Xew Sork Central and Xew^ York, Xew Haven <^Hartford enter Xew York over a four-track line extending fromMott Haven junction to Grand Central Terminal, a distance offive miles. The Grand Central Terminal is a two level passen-ger station with 3? miles of track. The travel through thisstation recpures the movement of 130 trains a day. During therush hours the traffic reaches a total movement of rtl trains inone hour, or a train every Tl seconds. This heaxy traftic madeit necessary to increase the track capacity of the four-track ap-proach. Additional main tracks would have required the en-largement of the tunnel, and the elevated structure throughPark Avenue, and of the four-track draw-bridge over the Har-lem river. The alternative of making a greater use of the ex- 122 CONTRDLLED MANUAL SYSTEM ST^T .2b ^SH^- ■»5=K ff^ FS^^ »^ .SOES ^[r- ^^ ^ :^ xi:f ;ZL. 1 ^-fl-i ^T ^ S&: ■TFt ^o: s==S H^. JOHNSTOWN Controlled Manual Block Signal System in use South Fork, Pa., to Sheridan, Pa., Pittsburgh Division, P. R. R., for either direction operat- tion on track No. 3. (See heavy line.) isting tracks was decided upon, and the westerly track of thefour was put in use, in 1924, for either direction operation bysignal indication. This provided an additional main track foroutgoing movements, making three tracks available for thisl>urpose in place of two. The cost of the signaling was .$1)U,(JOO, a sum far less thanthe annual interest charges on the construction of an addition::!track. The illustration shows the train dispatchers desk in inter-locking- station A on the upper station level. In front of thedesk is the illuminated track diagram, which indicates the move-ment of trains on the different tracks by small spot lights. Inthe center of the desk and on the left side are the push-buttonsof the inter-communicating apparatus used by the director insending and
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