| Show LIGHT MEANS DANGER RAilroads Abandoning Old Signal Code Coda In Which White In Indicated Indicated Indicated Safety GREEN IS NOW 0 K 1 SIGN tJ w hilL Or lur witt S Correspondence Washington Aug 21 Tho board of or o perls appointed to tho th of ot the railroads of ot f the States will be b confronted at atthe atthe the Iho outset with the fact that there thoro has hai hasI teen een I a complete und and unc moro more or less Ies tart start starts s revolution In block signal practise during durin recent years This Is Ia nothing les changing the tha th universal and whito light from a 0 safety to 10 a danger signal Ever block signaling went vent Into on railways and even that time the white light at lit nIght has been the o of safety to the he men on tho Iho lend head end It still Is Isso I Iso so 60 on the majority of tho the lines but buthe he gln I managers throughout the country have 1 decided almost without exception that thai tho best signal practise ird the tho whit light as ns a 0 sign of ot clear ahead abend and mil transforms Its mean menn mennIng meanIng Ing to 10 wrong Stop Imme ly The Tho revised language has hos be such because of ot the Iho fart fact that It Itha ha bai been ben discarded d from the signal Ignal I h on by the best besl authorities and onel by b IT my of the largest railway systems In th Ih hi United States Slates WHITE LIGHTS NEW MEANING lEANING On the tho line limme where till tho white while light no longer has a II place Its appearance denotes deflates that has gone wrong wIth the regular signal anti and therefore th h engine crow crew are unable to lo say there Is safety ahead or ruin disaster If It they the proceed Accord II Ialy there thero Is 18 only one thing to do and h it Is to stop until the doubt can be The greatest value there for foro in III discarding time while white light lies In n Hit tho fact that flat It l appears always when there liaR ban been hei h tn a p broken signal glass glues glassI nn sail nil It denotes the further important tad fat a t that no signal Is 15 being shown hawn I In n the HIP old alit signal lexicon there were thre Ihre colors for time the road which used he the permissive block signal system Item that is the system stem that permitted nn In rn to 10 enter enOr cn or a block of ot from If a n mile to seven miles In length kIi caution and with his train under ruin 1 running at no higher rate rato i of o f speed than thirty miles nile an nn hour houi hourI I thus bus being par l to mind the thet t I Urn bloW blok k ahead occupied and to 10 stop Im ImI rid lately I The Time SIghts lights formerly In universal sal nl use two were red for tor danger green for caution anti ont white while for safety Now tho the most approved signal code culls eulls for fored fortell tell roil ed fur for danger yellow or preferably range orange for 01 caution and green for anet ety W V E Chamberlain formerly a general manager for the New York New Jew Oe Haven and ond Hartford road was wash th h originator of ot this code and It Is amid ild to havo have been ben suggested by nn an In Interesting cresting tact fact At a II certain point on that nit road rond n a house was Willi located at nt such sucha nn an a to the railroad track that the tho light from tram one window used to strike strUt he the engineers line lino of ot vision at nt the same samo time LIme that ho lIe was wan to the light o of the block ho lie hoins holas lieas las ins approaching Several times the white light lIht from the tho house houst was mis mistaken taken iken for the clear signal sigal and dis disaster aster narrowly was averted This pos possibility noon SOOIl became known to alt all en cn Inet rs and all accordingly slowed their trains rains on approaching this block un unil il the became certain of ot their ground The house hOUM afterward was Willi bought by b bYthe the ho railroad company and torn down HOW CHANGE CAME The fhe engineers trouble caused Mr 11 r to ask why If It a 1 ight thus hums easily could become a source rf or f danger tho the safety safet signal of ot the Iho rall rail railroad road oad also al o could coult not become such luch Then It t to him that whenever a n nel el K In iii a Li danger or caution signal amp should hould be broken a II red or a green I Ight hl would at on oni once bo he h l In Into Into to 0 white while donating safety According Accordingly I ly the hp Now Ne ew Haven discarded tho the white III t In 1001 l Ot and this set nil all the rail t In Iii time tho country to think thinkIng Ing ng over ovel time the accidents that had hail been d by b tho the breaking of ot signal lamps lampa Th Ih use ule of oC green for fOl safety Is IB not ther devoid of liability to tu failure nt i nr CM have been recorded 1 where an ani anit i ident it nt occurred through an nil engineers u by ft n danger er signal and then 5 ill that he ho had seen a green gleen light lightn II in n rm on n case ca o which happened on the I k Inland hand and was WL Investigated Ihor thor in MI by hy this the th management the tho on en 1 wn wa proved to 10 have been boon might light Il in 0 the night In III question thieve there was Willi a I Ii y fog og and tho the lamp was shown to 10 o li h v RED mm TURNS TO TOA GREEN OnEENA GREENA A noted is called Into Inlo the Iho theis cai 10 is al Prest It ii L U was 1111 hoj j to Iran whether the tho will waa Hi this scientist demonstrated that II I 1 er really IUd had Been u LL green If lit di spite the tho fact that the tho red lii tl it hUll hud been exposed by b the time tower ini It 11 was IUS explained that It takes taken n a aI I of red white and black blick to 10 0 green gren Tho Thu red rell wits was fur Cur ihu d by b the danger Iunger signal tho the white while li b by i hi tog fog ro nod the Iho black by the II I in the thu lamp But Dut such Buch a com coal of would bo be as asnI ast nI t F UK a II loud load of being struck truck II by lightning ut the tile very velY moment that d 1 i r train was Willi pausing passing the tho car the till explosive which lias hM t II id a once Olleo in I n the t tIC history im I tory of ot 11 i of ot white also nho Insures engineer being better heltor able to In be bo 1 lila his Often Otten he Is ison culled on j through a I bewildering array arroy und a nil to distinguish hIs among tim tho many U Is vaa a c I one onu of or tile tho host tot for or irr 11 ir r t f safety Batot Is 10 easy With tin this tini i thu tho Worst fall cin l it hI ft to him II ml Is us u Ii I mistake that th I III l lIe he c on o the aide ot safety and eMU linn I lo to stop mop AH AS A CAUTION CAUlION P l lamp manufacturers havo ply i many attempts to It a n I wu MI imf Iff ty Iy y yellow hut but In III vOin AU jo I C O many Of ot tIme Iho roads JIK If for caution an UP that IhM color colori i II to Dhow a II of led which Ii in III i time tho engineer engi attain II to III I cm ere art on Ih Ride o ot of safety IY if it It H lie its in tIR R Not NIt u it tow fow OW of ot thu oad how r r tI i not 1111 belIeve In III the Ihu p ti of or block am tho f rr r have li no bethel with a third r such la Is tIme tho Bt St I i huts his only two block mug h R n u 1111 tid II It Jl I t ilo ulos s I O 1 Unit tho time bu be 11 I I tj any nn demolition hut but that this hits his f r if Ii h to 10 proceed hU lila command to 1 bo be q 1 ono one of oC tho fIrst tn ilIa In III ho tho to hi It adopt fley K code coell and timul of ot otI n 1 I of or that Hint toad would not lIot no I RO roll rm ha cIt i I n mo 1110 I lb old oh for or anything to SI It HU U h do eto they Ihu bello thu Iho ho now to tu bo ho boTO Jo MB TO IO O UK SOLVED I The problem tile tha now board will I 1110 5 to t will tiO ho Iho hio that h n A Railway hI hiis v en trying to tl decipher for o many yearn One of ot them then will be the tho making of ot lex lox lexicons lexIcons icons Ico for fa time the semaphores by day doy and ind indor for tor or the tho signal lumps lamps and their post 1051 positions by b night A now new no system being beill tried on Oil the Pennsylvania gives tie tha at al least 12 expressions Many expert signal and operating men look at ait this for tor or they thoy believe that the Uw language of ot the semaphore should bo be made as simple and brief ns as possible as 05 Is 11 the th ease comic In England where truffle density Is much greater grenter than Ihan hero here They hold that the tho th lan Inn language language guage of ot tho the should bo hG con confined tItled fined to 10 thero words stop proceed d and lint caution Any AI to these multIplIes the danger of ot mistake |
