Show PLACING AUTOMATIC IC SWITCH tn l' Ic kc to By lit Tested 1 on Or Oregon on Short Line This Week A force of or men began hegan Work yesterday yester yester- ta day ay J placing ont one of the Hurst automatic automatic automatic auto auto- matic switches on he ho Short Line Lne In lii Third West est st street between Second and Third South streets This Is 15 the first of oC the switches to be placed on oil a railroad although h sized full working models have havo been tried be- be with results that have led letl the promoters of the company compan to J re lct unqualified success for the time device tle andIs and anti Its Is ul ultimate universal adoption on tho lie railroads of or the country The Tho do dt Is one whereby hereby the switch Is op operated and ker keSt t In place b by means menns of a lint Hat bar set et close to o time the outside outride of the rail and rising above it about two Incites Inches In api ap- ap i caching tho the switch the time wheels of ot an aim engine or ci- cicar car cm press this bar down downto to the level ICYel of the rail and as ns II the lie bar Is made longer than any car In sio service vice the switch Is held in place automatically as long as cars are passing lassIng By means of a device de whereby where- where b by the tho action of the bar hal at the tho side of the rail roll can be reversed sed the switch ma may be tin thrown own from the engine without without without with with- out stopping This the tho Inventor In of I the t. t switch says y can be done by op- op orating crating r Ung a simple lever b by the fireman O or engineer In li-i or order er to place the device It I. I Is to countersink thu bolts bolt on the joints of the rails where It Is ml used and this with the tho fact that the parts o or of the time switch are being made L by hand will make noces necessary ary rp several lays days work before the switch Is ready for fOl fora fOla a practical test When hemi hen It Is read ready a party of officials of the lie Oregon Short Line Salt Lake Route and Rio Grande estern will wl be Invited In to make a n. thorough test an and Investigation of oC the tho switch cli |