Identifier: streetrailwayrev02amer (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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ntil midnight. On \ery busy daj-swe sometimes use threeoperators.working themsix hours each. Thework, of course, is verytr3ing, and commandsgood pay. Every conductor isobliged to carry a goodwatch and to keep histime exactly with thatof the dispatcher, whoin turn goes by the reg-ulator directly in frontof him. Frequent com-parisons of time aremade between conduc-tors and dispatcher dur-ing the day. The principal advan-tages as we have foundthem over the methodsof time table and starters which weformerly used, are: Fii-ft. A saving of expense—Were starters stationedat all the points where we now have telephones,the expense would be nearly five times as great as itis now. Second. A better service—The whereabouts of everycar being at all times known, any spaces caused byblockade or any other cause, can be easily filled up bylengthening out the intervals on which the cars run, fromthe end of the route. Delays from railroad trainsbroken down vehicles, disabled cars, processions and the
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CAR STARTING EV TELEPHONE—THE MAP OF THE ROUTES. like, are of frequent occurrence and are very apt to inter-fere with the schedule time of the cars. We have oftenfilled up a space of from 30 to 60 minutes, caused by aparade, so that ver) shortly after the blockade wasraised, the cars were again running in their regular order.Cars are not permitted to lie at the end of the route forany length of time, but are kept on the move as muchas possible. Third. A check on conductors—With our system con-ductors must run theircars on time or theywill soon be detected.Most of the routes areshort and conductorsare obliged to reportto the dispatcher at in-tervals not exceeding 40minutes. The s^stemis also advantageous tothe conductors, as it re-lieves them of a greatdeal of responsibility. With the old systemof time cards the menwere forced to use theirown judgment to a greatextent, and our experi-ence has been that theless a street car conduc-tor is obliged to use hisown judgment the bet-ter it

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