Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1909-01-15
WIRELESS TRAIN IDEA
New Discovery Brings Dispatcher
In Direct Touch With Engineer.
PREVENTIVE OF ACCIDENTS.
Union Pacific Railroad Installing en-
loeemotives Device Expected to Oh.
viste Danger Of NondeIisery Of Or
dsrs 10 Engineers on the Reed.

The actual control OF running trains
by wireless relegraphy took a step for.
ward when the Union Pacific railroad
recently equipped one uf its lPcQwo-
tivcs with q Wireless device l,y which
a train dispatcher may sit at his desk
ana send an order right into the cab
~ any locomotive ON the line Of toe
road within talking distance" Ut his
machine. says the Washington Star.
And. since talking distance" IL gov
erued only by the strength ~ the cur.
rent and can lie heightened at will. II
will be seen that the new discoveries
OF the railroads wireless expert, DR..
Frederick Nlllener. will forever put an
end "a those accidents that have often
resulted when some telegraph operator
failed 10 deliver train order which
had been sen, him.
In an emergency of this kind the
train dispatcher VII! now simply touch
a telegraph key. and far out on the rail
road line in the cab Of the locomotive
which is iu danger, 4 gong will begin
ringing. and before the eyes Of the en-.
gineer red light will fash. while a
miniature semapbore. painted red, viii
rise to the danger" position, and both
the engineer and fireman will know
there is deadly peril ahead for them
selves and their train.
As yet only the one locomotive has
been equipped with the wireless appa'
ratus. but 50 we'll does this operate and
So satisfactory Is its work that IL il
only a question Of short time until
every locomotive on the system is fit
ted with the safety device.
With wireless sending stations every
| hun, rcd mites along the main line
Or. Nj rurr says the disnatcbers Will
be ia ',bSoiute touch with every en-,
glneer ON the road at every minute
arG Ii be able TO communicate with
either should II become necessary tc
do So.
The instrument. are simple and
compact The sending appara tDs
which Is placed In the shops Of the
Union Pacific In Omaha occupies less
space than any wireless sending an
paratus ever buil,.
The current generated By a dvna
| mo, goes into an interrupter at 90
! volts and there Is transformed and
transferred into between 100000 and
SG1,0o0 volts. Franklin plates are used
as conductors. 4 Massey cooling de
vice is used to Keep the disrupture
discharge points cool. In the tuning
| coil the alternating current Is changed
into a high voltage oscil!sting alter
mating current. from which it is cpa
( duo ted to ground and anchor cap ant
thence to the antenna. where IL is dis
charged into the air.
| The antenua on the cab OF the loco
| motive picks up the current. carries i
! down into the cab and into the receip
/ ing Instruments within brass boz
! not unlike a fire alarm box. On tht
. front of this box is the big goug. whes1
( ringing can I've heard above any notss
| that can be made br the locomotive
! Just above this gong and oil the fact
/ Of the box are the little red senaphort
and the red danger signal. and wheI
the gong sounds the semapbofe goe,
to danger" and the red light flashes.