. The Street railway journal . FIG 4.—TELEPHONE CONNECTION BOX HORGENERAL SERVICE Cars are considered on time unless more than five minuteslate. GENERAL TELEPHONE SERVICE As stated before, in addition to the despatchers telephoneline there is a line for general service over the whole line has instruments at the companys car houses andoffices in all the cities to which it runs, and on its line thereis placed every half-mile a connection box (Fig. 4) on oneof the companys poles. boxes are like those used onthe despatching system, except they are placed directly ona pole and no
. The Street railway journal . FIG 4.—TELEPHONE CONNECTION BOX HORGENERAL SERVICE Cars are considered on time unless more than five minuteslate. GENERAL TELEPHONE SERVICE As stated before, in addition to the despatchers telephoneline there is a line for general service over the whole line has instruments at the companys car houses andoffices in all the cities to which it runs, and on its line thereis placed every half-mile a connection box (Fig. 4) on oneof the companys poles. boxes are like those used onthe despatching system, except they are placed directly ona pole and not on an arm. They are also painted a differ-ent color from the despatchers circuit connection a work train is on the line or any employee along FIG. 5.—A GOOD TRACK FOR 50 MILES AN HOUR road, which parallels the Union Traction Company, is Ihour and 13 minutes. The slow local trains consume Ihour 50 minutes in making this run. In this connection itmust be remembered that 25 minutes is consumed be-tween the city l
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