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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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Ohio, Columbus, Ohio. Cars should be made to slow down to 10 miles an hour and mo-torman required to blow whistle at the approach to such cross-ings. J. R. Harrigan, Gen. Mgr., Columbus, Buckeye Lake & Newark Tract. Co. Slowing down of cars to 8 or 10 miles per hour, blowing whistleand proper crossing signs. H. A. Tiemann, New York City. All highway crossings at grade on the Utica & Mohawk ValleyRailway are planked 24 ft. in width with hardwood plank, next to diately adjoining the cattle guards is erected a sloping fence, placedat an angle of 45 degrees, which in combination with a stretch ofstraight fence connects the cattle guards with the fence boundingthe right of way. The cattle guards and the fences approaching thesame are placed as nearly as possible to the line of the fence bound-ing the highway. All these are shown in the photographs. Weare trying at crossings an automatic gong operated through a bat-tery circuit actuated by a track instrument, which in turn is oper-
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PROTECTING HIGHWAY CROSSINGS, UTICA & MOHAWK ated by a lever and pressure when cars are passing. To date itsservice has not been satisfactory. Our feeling is that all highwaycrossings should be protected by some device of this kind, if suchdevice can be found that is positive and will work. C. Loomis Allen, Gen. Mgr., Utica & Mohawk Valley Ry. Co. Standard steam-road crossing signs warning persons to lookout for the cars, and all cars give the crossing whistle 500 ft.from the crossing. Francis G. Daniell, New York City. A 32.—Where an electric railway crosses a steam road, whatis the usual arrangement between the electric road and thesteam road for the maintaining of a flagman at such points ? Each should have a flagman. W. T. Nary, Supt. Hoosac Valley St. Ry. Co., North Adams, Mass. Where an electric road crosses a steam road, in this State, if thesteam railroad does not maintain a flagman, the Railroad Commis-sioners have made it a rule that the street railroad shall maint

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