Identifier: streetrailwayrev161amer (find matches)
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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king will he provided for all main line switches.This locking becomes effective when a train has reached a pointat least one mile in the rear of the distant signal. A counter reading to five figures is to be placed on all high sig-nals to register the number of movements. The movement to be used to operate the switches is of an en-tirely new type. With the small clearance under the third-rail con- Side Entrance Cars for the Wilkes - Barre &Hazelton Railway Co. The accompanying illustration shows one of a shipment of 10double-truck, semi-convertible cars which were built for the Wilkes-Barre & Hazelton Railway Co., by the Jewett Car Co., Newark, O.An interesting feature of these cars is found in the position of thevestibule which is located in the center of the car, thus dividing thecar into two separate compartments. Since the cars are to be operatedthrough the coal mining district about Wilkes-Barre, the smallerof these two compartments is reserved for the use of-miners. This
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A COMPLETED ORDER OF CARS FOR THE WILKES-BARRE St HAZELTON RAILWAY CO. tact shoe, a mechanism that will not project above the top of therunning rail is absolutely necessary. This movement is enclosed ina neat casing with the gear and escapement crank horizontally ar-ranged. The movement is fitted with an improved locking device whichwill prevent the motor from forcing the plunger through the lockrod in case it should not have come to the proper position. The type of dwarf signal to be used is a new one, the signal armbeing moved by a motor mechanism arranged horizontally at thebase of the post. In this installation the use of detector bars is practically abolished,a few only being used on the outside rail on sharp curves. Shortelectric track circuits are provided in their place. The use of theseshort track circuits with the controlling wires to the interlockingmachine makes possible, at small expense, the use in the interlock-ing tower of an illuminated track indicator consisting of a

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