. Proceedings of the annual convention . y has a large staff of experienced SignalEngineers and is prepared to make plans for the expeditiousand safe movement of traffic in yards and on the road. Nosituation is too simple or too complicated for its costs nothing. Good signaling is not merelyprotection against accidents—it is one means of getting themost out of a unit of track or a unit of equipment. A goodSignal Engineer is not only a civil engineer, a mechanical en-gineer and an electrical engineer; he also must know a gooddeal about the movement of trains. That is the
. Proceedings of the annual convention . y has a large staff of experienced SignalEngineers and is prepared to make plans for the expeditiousand safe movement of traffic in yards and on the road. Nosituation is too simple or too complicated for its costs nothing. Good signaling is not merelyprotection against accidents—it is one means of getting themost out of a unit of track or a unit of equipment. A goodSignal Engineer is not only a civil engineer, a mechanical en-gineer and an electrical engineer; he also must know a gooddeal about the movement of trains. That is the sort of en-gineers the Union Switch and Signal Co. has on its staff. At this moment (June, 1903), Automatic Electric Block-ing with Semaphore Signals is the interesting topic. TheUnion Switch and Signal Co. has now in service or on order4,243 Automatic Electric Semaphore Signals. The in-crease in Union Signals of this style in the last twentymonths has been one hundred and thirty-nine per cent. Oc Union Details arc tfye Stan&arfcs.
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