Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-04-20 | Page 11 | Dispatch Trains With the Wireless

DISPATCH I TRAINS WITH TIMELESS THE WIRElESS IRELESS Western Railroad Men Believe They Can Avoid Interference Interference Interference ence of Storms While the official announcement Is yet to be received by officials of the Union nion Pacific In Salt Lake It has been peen given out In Omaha that dispatching by b wireless telegraphy telegraph will solve the problem l of the storm swept reaches of the west fo the tho Union Pacific It Is iss said that tho the company compan Is planning plan planning planning ning the Installation of ot wireless sta stations stations stations In several divisions In the west western western ern territory where through the winter I traffic has been greatly Interrupted as asa asa asa a result of telegraph lines being down This move by the Union anion Pacific will constitute the first adaptation of I the wireless to the purposes of rail railroad railroad railroad road operation In the United States I The number of stations has lIas not been determined They Joey are to be placed according 10 to the present plans at a distance of or shout about miles apart De Developments in hi u the Omaha experimental station are expected to maKe maze western stations He lle readily within re tell of ot headquarters at all aU times The purpose however for the time being of the Installation will be to Insure Inure the transmission of train or orders orders orders ders regardless of If the conditions that affect the wire lines Ultimate de oe developments developments are aie expected to result in inan inan inan an extension of the use ue of or the wire wireless wireless wireless less The practicability of the t e project now determined upon has been dem demonstrated demonstrated to the satisfaction of the railroad engineers by the operation of the plants by the army arm signal corps at t Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley The necessity for the wireless was pointedly brought to the notice of the Union Pacific p in the recent storms which cut off ff all ail communication to the westward for two days das during which time the operation of trains was rendered slow and dangerous Snow sleet and wind cannot mar the efficiency of the ether wave on which the wireless ss message travels