Identifier: streetrailwayjo291907newy (find matches)
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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when the signal is given to the man operating the turn-table to revolve it. The tableis then turned through 120 degs. The conductor then al-lows the trolley to return to the wire on outgoing track andgives the go-ahead signal for the motorman. By actual test this procedure has been accomplished in20 seconds, and it is expected that with a little practiceeven this brief time will be greatly reduced to much shortertime, and from trials already made the scheme appears to bevery satisfactory. ACCIDENT FRAUD RUN DOWN IN PENNSYLVANIACENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA TRACTIONCOMPANY BY The Central Pennsylvania Traction Company, of Har-risburg-, has caused the arrest of William Wingrove, a trav-
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LOADING YARD AND LAY-OVER TRACK AT THE HOT SPRINGS RACE TRACK eling salesman, at his home in York, on a charge of beinga party to a conspiracy to defraud the company out of $3,200.This sum was the amount of a claim awarded by theDauphin County Court as the result of injuries alleged tohave been sustained by his wife in a fall from one of thecars belonging to the complainant. The arrest followedthe arrest of a witness in the case for the prosecution, whois alleged to have made a confession disclosing the con-spiracy. March 23, 1907.) STREET, RAILWAY JOURNAL. 495 ELECTRICAL NIGHT AT THE NEW YORK RAILROAD CLUB The third annual electrical night of the New York Rail-road Club was held on March 15 in the Engineering Build-ing. Instead of the usual technical paper, President Vree-land announced that a number of electric traction expertsand others had been invited to give ten-minute talks ondifferent phases of heavy electric traction. The first speaker was W. J. Wilgus, vice-presidentof the N

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