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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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tensions covering three milesare to be put in. A power house is located at Stratford in whichis being installed three large turbine engines, having a combinedcapacity of 18,000 h. p. Train Dispatching on the Rochester & Eastern Rapid Ry. BY W. R. W. GRIFFIN, SUPERINTENDENT. In presenting this discussion of the method of train dispatchingon the Rochester & Eastern Rapid Ry., I do not propose to offerany freak or startling system, but to describe an old systemapplied to a new situation with a few distinct and possibly uniqueadditions. Before entering directly upon the subject of dispatch-ing, I wish to review briefly the evolution of electric railroading,and also the causes that led up to the ultimate decision of theRochester & Eastern to adopt its present method of dispatching. The first steps taken in electric railroading were upon our citystreets, where in the early days, the electric propulsion was ap- // ^A K £ 0/VTA /? / OS /J=-J ft ^ElSTERNRlPWflAILim and ( owFiTioxy
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MAP OF THE ROCHESTER & EASTERN RAPID RY. plied to the then existing horse cars, and as time went on thesize of the cars was increased until we reached our present citystandards. On the single track, turn-outs were placed in thestreets a suitable distance apart to maintain the traffic. Theseturn-outs were almost always in sight of the man handling thecars from turn-out to turn-out. Consequently, it required but verylittle direction upon the part of the railway officers to keep thecars moving and avoid collisions. In some locations double trackswere built. This allowed the movement of cars in one directionon one track and in an opposite direction on the other track.Thus the problem of keeping the traffic moving was still moresimplified. The dispatching of this class of train work is ordinarily carriedon by inspectors or starters who are more or less immediately upon Form :<17. 10OM. K-05. Indiana Union Traction Company. the country highways until they connected town and city. The

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