. Electric railway journal . e marketability, a bond will resultthat will compare favorably with any other returning asimilar rate of interest. THE SIGNAL AND DISPATCHING SYSTEM ON THEMIMICO DIVISION OF THE TORONTO & YORKRADIAL RAILWAY The Toronto & York Radial Railway has been using forseveral months on its Mimico Division, extending 10 mileswest of Toronto, a signal and dispatching system installedby the Simmen Automatic Railway Signal Company, ofLos Angeles, Cal., and Toronto, Ont. This is the firstinstallation of this system on an electric interurban rail-way, but it has already been in re
. Electric railway journal . e marketability, a bond will resultthat will compare favorably with any other returning asimilar rate of interest. THE SIGNAL AND DISPATCHING SYSTEM ON THEMIMICO DIVISION OF THE TORONTO & YORKRADIAL RAILWAY The Toronto & York Radial Railway has been using forseveral months on its Mimico Division, extending 10 mileswest of Toronto, a signal and dispatching system installedby the Simmen Automatic Railway Signal Company, ofLos Angeles, Cal., and Toronto, Ont. This is the firstinstallation of this system on an electric interurban rail-way, but it has already been in regular service for overa year on an 18-mile Southern California division of theSanta Fe Railroad, as described in the Electric RailwayJournal of July 4, 1908. The Mimico Division is probablyone of the busiest single-track lines in existence, as theschedule provides for a 20-minute service during certainhours and requires about 2500 daily signal indications. Theimportance of accurate signaling and dispatching on such a. Toronto Interurban Dispatching—View of Car Equippedwith Shoe for Signal Current Rail Alongside line is self-evident. Through the adoption of the Simmenmethod the dispatcher is not only enabled to issue ordersto the motormen over car telephones as given points arepassed, but is also provided with a recording mechanismwhich shows him at all times the speed and location of every car in service. Further than this, interlocking ar-rangements on his switchboard make it impossible for himto order one car to proceed through a certain block untilthe block has been cleared by the car previously given theright of way. DETAILS OF APPARATUS The train movement record sheet in the dispatchers of-
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