. The Street railway journal . elephone is hooked into circuit and conversation begun at oncewithout ringing. As the only instruments on the line are thedespatchers, and whatever car telephones may be in use, it ispossible to keep long lengths of despatching line in circuitwithout interfering with the talking over the line. The de-spatchers switchboard is arranged, however, so that he canseparate the lines going in different directions from the office. of trains, but because of the difficulty of telephoning with cer-tainty under all conditions of weather over so large a despatcher l
. The Street railway journal . elephone is hooked into circuit and conversation begun at oncewithout ringing. As the only instruments on the line are thedespatchers, and whatever car telephones may be in use, it ispossible to keep long lengths of despatching line in circuitwithout interfering with the talking over the line. The de-spatchers switchboard is arranged, however, so that he canseparate the lines going in different directions from the office. of trains, but because of the difficulty of telephoning with cer-tainty under all conditions of weather over so large a despatcher located at Anderson has 101 miles of road underhis charge, and another despatcher at Tipton has 119 miles. To add still further to the reliability of the system, the com-pany will soon put telephones in booths at all regular meetingpoints for use in despatching. The portable telephones on the Indiana Union Traction Company. TRAIN ORDER BLANK. FOKM A. Uoni. 3U IOUM 1?-<U Order Afc _„ To Conductor and Motorman, Date 1NEUMATIC CAR-LOADING HOIST, SHIPPING TRACK ANDSPECIAL ELECTRIC WHEEL CAR. THE LATTER HAS A LON-GITUDINAL CONTROLLER TO ALLOW WHEELS TO BEROLLED OFF OVER BUFFER, NEW YORK CITY SHOPS When this is done it is necessary for the train crews to ringin order to call the despatcher, each circuit being provided withdrops on the switchboard for this purpose. On the telephone lines devoted to general business there isa connection box every half mile along the entire line for useby construction train crews and in case of accident. Telephoneinstruments are rented from the Bell Company. The line andinstruments are maintained by the railway. The repairing ofthe telephone instruments is done by the sub-station attendantsto utilize their spare time. Semaphores are provided at the sub-stations, which are about10 miles apart, by which a despatcher can telephone to a sub-station and stop any train for orders in case it is necessary todo so between regular reporting points.
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