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Identifier: electricrailway331909newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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e marketability, a bond will resultthat will compare favorably with any other returning asimilar rate of interest. THE SIGNAL AND DISPATCHING SYSTEM ON THEMIMICO DIVISION OF THE TORONTO & YORKRADIAL RAILWAY The Toronto & York Radial Railway has been using forseveral months on its Mimico Division, extending 10 mileswest of Toronto, a signal and dispatching system installedby the Simmen Automatic Railway Signal Company, ofLos Angeles, Cal., and Toronto, Ont. This is the firstinstallation of this system on an electric interurban rail-way, but it has already been in regular service for overa year on an 18-mile Southern California division of theSanta Fe Railroad, as described in the Electric RailwayJournal of July 4, 1908. The Mimico Division is probablyone of the busiest single-track lines in existence, as theschedule provides for a 20-minute service during certainhours and requires about 2500 daily signal indications. Theimportance of accurate signaling and dispatching on such a
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Toronto Interurban Dispatching—View of Car Equippedwith Shoe for Signal Current Rail Alongside line is self-evident. Through the adoption of the Simmenmethod the dispatcher is not only enabled to issue ordersto the motormen over car telephones as given points arepassed, but is also provided with a recording mechanismwhich shows him at all times the speed and location of every car in service. Further than this, interlocking ar-rangements on his switchboard make it impossible for himto order one car to proceed through a certain block untilthe block has been cleared by the car previously given theright of way. DETAILS OF APPARATUS The train movement record sheet in the dispatchers of-

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