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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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nd maintain an efficient service. The wiresleading from all of these phones run directly to the dis-patchers office, where they are connected on to a neatglass front switchboard, about 20 by 12 by 8 inches insize, stationed on top of a neat oak desk, which is about9 feet long, at which two dispatchers can work at thesame time when necessary, and is known as a combina-tion desk and switchboard. The transmitter, adjustableby means of weights and pulleys, also hangs directly infront of him, as will be seen in the cut showing interiorview of the dispatchers office of the Los Angeles Rail-way Company, A system of magnetic and gravitydrops, works in connection with a signalling system ofsmall incandescent lamps, the latter being placed backof a stenciled number representmg each circuit, which. (jOSANSELfi H4I1.WAY& # TtRMMJL snnoiiTlLtphONE 5Y5TrM ® EMOMthCT ,. PtVISIONS UmvCR&it t a WA5HMQT0M Sr -BC0STVT1.5I aniLLDw /^fift* ESioe (MflN OowWTArt a Ft«T 51, - -MaPLE a tiBAMO avE5 /
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when lighted, indicates the circuit calling. A setof cam lever switches which the dispatcher works withhis left hand restores the drop to its normal position,which, when pulled down, also put out the correspond-ing lamps and puts him in direct connection with thepartv calling. He is provided with a large sheet, 21 by24 inches, on which are listed the numbers of all cars intheir regular order, under the proper headings of eachline. He is thus enabled to dispatch two to seven carsper minute, recording the time each one should leave theterminus on his sheet. A glance at this sheet gives himthe immediate condition of the entire system and exactlocation and direction of each car. Of course, the calls do not come in uniformly, but varj-a great deal owing to the number of cars in operation.The space between cars also varies as does the numberof cars in operation, which is governed by the trafficat different hours of the day in most places. The dis- patchers duties have been largely increased

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