Category: Engineering & Technology
The Train Wire: A Discussion of the Science of Train Dispatching (Second Edition)
Form A 101 Form B 104 Form C 106 Form D 114 Form E 115 Form F 117 Form G 119 Form H 120 Form J 127 Form K 128 Form L 130
Chapters
11. CHAPTER IX.
Many books of Rules have borne evidence that the ability to construct rules is not always commensurate with the many other gifts of successful railroad officers. To know what is...
12. CHAPTER X.The advantage of pre-arranged forms of train orders for the cases ordinarily occurring has been already adverted to, and is now fully recognized. Forms should be brief. A multit...
10. CHAPTER VIII.Some Dispatchers prefer to personally telegraph their orders, having an assistant operator to copy them as transmitted or as repeated, and to perform the subsequent work of veri...
3. CHAPTER I.The telegraph, as a means of directing the movements of trains, is a necessary railroad fixture. But for its agency the moving of the heavy traffic of some of our railroads woul...
14. CHAPTER XII.Telegraphic train dispatching came with the telegraph. The first attempts were very crude. As late as the year 1865, on one of our most important railroads, the plan was for any...
9. CHAPTER VII.A method much used for signaling a train to stop for orders is to display a flag or light of suitable color, after receiving the direction to "hold the train." This is often don...
13. CHAPTER XI.The respective rights of trains are frequently spoken of in what has gone before. Any method of dispatching must be subject to modification in some of the details to accord with...
6. CHAPTER IV.There are some general considerations which it is important to bear in mind in the preparation and issuing of train orders. Some of these have been already pointed out. The circ...
2. CHAPTER XII--Conclusion 143In the first edition of this book, issued in 1883, Mr. Anderson, then Superintendent of the Belvidere Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, modestly disclaiming perfection for...
5. CHAPTER III.Where the work of the Dispatcher is considerable, he will require the aid of one or more operators in the work connected with the transmission of orders. In view of the importan...
4. CHAPTER II.The Train Dispatcher holds a most important position as respects safety of life and property. He may perhaps do more than any other official to secure it by care or endanger it...
8. CHAPTER VI.A careful record ought to be kept of each step in the issuing of an order, as well as of its exact terms. This record should be made on the original copies held by the Dispatche...
7. CHAPTER V.Under the common practice there must be prepared at least three copies of each train order received for delivery. The conductor and engineman are each supplied with a copy, and...
1. CHAPTER X--Forms of Train Orders 97Form A 101 Form B 104 Form C 106 Form D 114 Form E 115 Form F 117 Form G 119 Form H 120 Form J 127 Form K 128 Form L 130