. The street railway review . J»e 54 70, July 44,148 63 70, 49, August 41,770 54 67, September 46,576 55 72, 632 October 58,198 48 92, 52, November 59,257 *09 92, 57-3 December 62,735 *io 100, Totals 51,777 42 $978, $682, *Loop in use in November and December, 1897. « ■ > At Cleveland, recently, as two cars were passing, the trolley wheelof one fell and was carried through the vestibule and front partitionof the other, breaking gla
. The street railway review . J»e 54 70, July 44,148 63 70, 49, August 41,770 54 67, September 46,576 55 72, 632 October 58,198 48 92, 52, November 59,257 *09 92, 57-3 December 62,735 *io 100, Totals 51,777 42 $978, $682, *Loop in use in November and December, 1897. « ■ > At Cleveland, recently, as two cars were passing, the trolley wheelof one fell and was carried through the vestibule and front partitionof the other, breaking glass and slightly injuring two passengers. system is a manual one and this method has the advantage of mak-ing the conductor responsible for mainlaining liis right of way. The system is operated as follows: A conductor before enteringa section between switches pushes a switch rod which sets a signalat the turnout ahead, a magnet operating a red semaphore and in-candescent lamps behind a red glass disk. This makes the signal. ■m/tB mrffisoccmrc/icii FIG. 2. visible both night and day. This semaphore stays set until hereaches the switch ahead; then the conductor opens the circuitwhich sets that track behind him to safety. If on reaching theswitch he finds the semaphore is set to danger, he has to wait onswitch until the car passes. Conductors only set semaphores aheadof them and release those behind; the car is controlled by the sem-aphores operated by the conductors of cars passing it at the ^tJlWit%\lvv%\^jVA£M/* 105 switches, and the signal systems (or cars operating in opposite di-rection arc entirely independent. In each signal box there is alsoa pilot lamp which is extinguished when the section o( track isopened and illuminated when the section is closed; this gives theconductor knowledge that his signals have properly operated at thedistant switch. As the first signal set gives the right of way thereis no meeting between switches. The detailed description is givenbelo
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