page_title: West Penn Railways
hierarchical_section_title: West Penn Railways
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: streetrailwayrev15amer 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&#160;: Street Railway Review Pub. Co Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: good results have been obtainedfrom the use of the block system. The crews arc provided withtime table and instructions in the operation of signals arc such thatluib- delay occurs. In connection with the signal system there is maintained a com-plete telephone system one circuit of which follows the railway.having iron box telephones installed at each switch and wall sel&gt;at the car houses, disRatchers and superintendents offices. .\n-other line follows the high tension system connecting stations andmain power house; intercommunication hetwcen the two lines isobtained at several points and connection is also availAle betweenthese lines and the trunk lines of the Tri-State Telephone Co.This makes the system very flexible and a loss of means of com-munication almost impossible. Operation.The severe physical conditions, due to the fact that the territoryserved lies for the greater part among the foothills of the .MIeghenyMoiiutains. calls for careful operation and a strict observance of Text Appearing After Image: ST.\ND.\RD PASSENGER C.XK. regulations on the part of employes. Grades running as high as12 per cent are to be found at some points on the line but are oper-ated over daily without trouble or delay. A train register is kept at division points and shows the arrivaland departure of all cars, color of signals carried, names of crewand condition of track. From these registers a report is coijipiledeverv 15 days sbowing proportion of cars on time. Tbe annual 202 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. XV, No. 4. report for 1904 sljowcd ihc remarkably liigh scheSule observanceof 97.1 per cent of cars on time. Tbe power imerriiption reportshowing current on the line 99.8 per cent of .ischeduled time. For operating purposes the lines are divided into the Connells-ville. Uniontow-n. Mt. Pleasant. Greenshiirg and McKcesport di-visions; these are again subdivided into routes numbering from 50to 67 inclusive. Fares are based on I-i cents per mile with no form of round tripor reduced rate tickets on sale wit Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: West Penn Railways, one part of the West Penn System, was an interurban electric railway headquartered in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. It was part of the region's power generation utility.
context_section_description: West Penn Railways, one part of the West Penn System, was an interurban electric railway headquartered in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. It was part of the region's power generation utility.
caption: A West Penn Railways car in 1891
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