Lectures on Commerce: Delivered Before the College of Commece and Administration of the University of ChicagoHenry Rand Hatfield |
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Page 44 - Section. — One of two or more trains running on the same schedule displaying signals or for which signals are displayed. Extra Train. — A train not represented on the time-table.
Page 49 - A train order to be sent to two or more offices must be transmitted simultaneously to as many of them as practicable. The several addresses must be in the order of superiority of trains and when practicable must include the operator at the meeting or waiting point, each office taking its proper address.
Page 45 - YARD — A system of tracks within defined limits provided for the making up of trains, storing of cars and other purposes, over which movements not authorized by time-table, or by train order, may be made, subject to prescribed signals and rules, or special instructions.
Page 49 - 19" train order has been transmitted, operators must (unless otherwise directed) repeat it at once from the manifold copy, in the succession in which the several offices have been addressed. Each operator receiving the order should observe whether the others repeat correctly. When the order has been repeated correctly by an operator, the response "complete" and the time, with the initials of the , will be given by the train dispatcher.
Page 160 - My bellows, too, have lost their wind; . My fire's extinct, my forge decayed, And in the dust my vice is laid. My coal is spent, my iron's gone, My nails are drove, my work is done ; My fire-dried corpse lies here at rest, And, smoke-like, soars up to be bless'd.
Page 50 - complete," and the time, with the initials of the , will then be given by the train dispatcher. Each operator receiving this response will then write on each copy the word "complete," the time, and his last name in full, and then deliver a copy to each person addressed, except enginemen. The copy for each engineman must be delivered to him personally by...
Page 172 - Navy six officers, who shall constitute a board for the purpose of examining and reporting to Congress which of the navy-yards or arsenals, owned by the government has the best location and is best adapted for the establishment of a government foundry, or what other method, if any, should be adopted for the manufacture of heavy ordnance adapted to modern warfare, for the use of the Army and Navy of the United States...
Page 141 - There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance for men and commodities from one place to another.
Page 44 - It may be designated as — Extra — for any extra train, except work extra; Work extra — for work train extra. SUPERIOR TRAIN. — A train having precedence over other trains.
Page 45 - The authority for the movement of regular trains subject to the rules. It contains the classified schedules of trains with special instructions relating thereto. Schedule. — That part of a Time Table which prescribes the class, direction, number, and movement of a regular train.