The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-09
RAILROAD NOTES.

An unwelc0me change has been made
In the inns table of the wood Lake
road. The morning train now leaves the
lake at Gal instead Of 1885. and passengers
now have 70 get up before breakfast time.
1he baltimore and Ohio Company has
contracted with the Poughkeepsie Cou-
pany 10 carry its New England freight,
thus saving a transfer at New York.
The LehiRh Valley Company has COM
menced work on the first OF the fourteen
new hog engines at the south Easton
shops. These engines are TO nave eight
drivers, the weight Of each cylinder will
be 3, 100 lbs.
The Lshigh Valley Company will not,
as has been announced, be able TO open
It's new road from South Piainfeld to
Newark till late In February or perhaps
earlv in March before the road will be in
readiness for passenger traffic.
Nine rotary snow plows ave been built
al Paterson during the past year. three Of
which have been sent for use on the
Union Pacific. The Northern Pacific is
using nine of these snow removers and
claims that they are the best machines
yet adopted for keeping tracks clear of
snow. They were built at the Cooke
Locomotive Works.
A couple OF years q a road was incor-
porated TO continue the Greenwood Lake
branch further into Orange county, N.
Y. but nothing definate could be learne d
abOAA ! PItJtJltu lcTflluuS because men
OF h Erie ~repndia5ed the scheme.
Now it seems there is something in it, for
10 Is proposed to run a road from Sterling
Forest on the Greenwood Lake road to
Sugar Loaf station on the Lehigh and
Hudson, thence to join the Orange Coun-
" road and through counties west of the
Hudson to and through the Adirondacks
to Ogdensburg on the st. Lawrence river,
where IL will connect with the Canada
Pacific, to be called the New York and
Pacific road.
A railroad signal designed to prevent
loss Of life and property through tele-
graph operators forgetting to signal
trains was tested on the after
noon of the 18th of Febru-
ary. at Somervllle, n. j., by a com
pany of representative railroad men. The
new device is the invention Of Robert
Stuart, superintendent of Telegraph Of
the Central, and w. p. Hall, President of
ism Is very simple. The electric current
which moves the red blade over the white
face Of the signal targets a short distance
either side of the station has two breaks.
One break is closed by a key on the op-
orators desk, the other by a drop shutter
arrangement which shows the words
Train Orders" when the current is
broken. and the danger signal is dis
played. h shutter is out of the reach
of the operator sitting at his desk. 4
move of the key on the desk from the
safety to the danger" side breaks the
current in two places, the danger signal
is displayed u down falls the shutter
marked Train Orders" Now, should
the operator 90 to sleep or forget that he
has orders and move the key over to the
safety point, only one break in the circuit
is closed and the danger signal remains
displayed until he goes to the back of the
Office to close the other break by pressing
the button and there Train Orders
stares him IN the face.
Reading conductors have commenced
taking their vacations on an order Just
issued, which gives each one six days to
himself without deducting his time.