. The Street railway journal . FIG. 2.—MASTER CONTROLLER,WITH CASE CLOSED •IG. 3.—MASTER CONTROLLER,WITH CASE OPEN It has been known in railway circles for some time that theWestinghouse Companies were planning to place on the marketa train control system of an improved type, to be known asthe turret system, but no details of construction were madepublic until the system, as a complete whole, was exhibited atthe Saratoga Convention. The control is now being installedon several cars of the Manhattan division of the InterboroughRapid Transit Railway Company, and a contract has just beenclosed wi
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 2.—MASTER CONTROLLER,WITH CASE CLOSED •IG. 3.—MASTER CONTROLLER,WITH CASE OPEN It has been known in railway circles for some time that theWestinghouse Companies were planning to place on the marketa train control system of an improved type, to be known asthe turret system, but no details of construction were madepublic until the system, as a complete whole, was exhibited atthe Saratoga Convention. The control is now being installedon several cars of the Manhattan division of the InterboroughRapid Transit Railway Company, and a contract has just beenclosed with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for 264 con-■ trol equipments of the turret type. As briefly described in the issue of Sept. 5, the main currentconnections are made by a series of unit switches, orbreakers, grouped in a circular case, or turret, underneaththe car, the movement of the individual switches or breakersbeing secured by air power, controlled by magnets from abattery circuit through a master controller.
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