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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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railway passenger signal, which consists oa switch to be operated by the pros,K;c:ive passenger, a c uster ollamps which lights when the switch is closed and a device for auto-matically extinguishing the lamps after they have served their pur-pose, the stations thus lM:ing lighted only when actually n-ed by a •l-hc switch for operating the lights is prolecle.l by fu-,es and r.encased in a water-tight iron Ih-x, thoroughly in.ula.e.l with porce-lain and vulcanized rublK-r. The box is Imated .m a trolley ;K,le.and the switch han.lle projects through the front within easy reach,.( any one standing on the ground. .Stamped on the ever of hel,.,x i. the instruction, -lo stop cars at n.ghl. push .lown the handle. After the cluster l^ lighted by the prospective passenger he can-not extinguish it nor aflect the mechanism in any way. 1 his pre-vent, boy. or mischievously inclined person, from playing -.r me. -d^ig with the mechanism, a. would be the case ,f the switch couldIk manually reset.
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WIKINl. DIACKAM 1K IAK Sli;NAI,. lached to the pole, the other ,ur:niKe(l lo be snspc-ii.lnl fn.ni llie span wire. . 1,1 Mr Painter also makes signals for road-crossiiigs, wlucli be-si.les ringing a bell as a warning turns on a cluster of red lights,using the railway current to operate it. This device is also suit-able for a caution signal on sharp cuiAes, bri.lges and viaducts. *♦♦11 IK CKNTKAI- KLECTUlt <-l),, ,if Chicago, reports a mostgratifyi^ng business f..r the oulg-iiig year, iw. ad asserts ihal 1004will witness still further iinpr..xements and .levelopmeiils of its al-rea.ly inmiense business. The company slates that it will conlinneto push the same specialties wilh which its name is already so welli.leiitilied, Okonite and 1 X I. wires, I). & W, enclosed fuses, Pilts-burg transformers and Columbia lamps. p-our passenger cars and two motor cars were burned al the terminus of the Douglas Park branch of the Melrupolitan West SideKIcvaled Kailroad Co., Chicago

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