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Show - " : TRAINS OUT OF OGDEN. By Friday of this wqck the Union Pacific will have installed the telephone instruments which are to complete the new system for dispatching dis-patching trains over this division of the road. Two new copper wires have been strung from Rawlins to Ogden for this service and, beginning either Friday or Saturday, trains will be operated out of Ogden under control of a dispatcher at a telephone. This is one of the most radical changes, in the method of directing direct-ing train movements, inaugurated in the past forty years. Up to the present a dispatcher has had to be a skilled telegraph operator. From now on there will be little necessity for the directing head of train "meets" to be other than a man experienced in the train service ser-vice and capable of handling men. Telegraph will be dispensed with and "orders" will be spoken and the dispatcher will keep in touch with the conductors of the different trains by oral communication. com-munication. There are a number of surprising conditions arising with this use of the telephone. For instance, a day last week a fruit train on the Union Pacific on the east and of the Utah division, where the telephone i3 now doing service, was making slow time and one . of the officials had reason to believe the engineer was not getting all possible out of his engine, so he called up a small intermediate Btation at a distance of 70 miles and instructed the operator to place the transmitter outside the office window. When the fruit train went by, the official, 70 miles away, heard the engine working and knew by the exhaust that the engineer had "eased up." When this telephone system is in perfect working condition, there will be but little that is audible out on the line which will es cape the men at "headquarters." Lincoln, during the Civil War, had a man at the front whom he designated as the eyes of the administration. The telephone on the railroad will be the ears of the officials out on the road. |