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Show SOUTHERN PACiFIG USING TELEPHONES Supplanting the telecraph. which v.a-j consldercil the standard for handling han-dling train movements for a great many years, the Southern Pacific has Joined the ranks of railroads now using us-ing the telephone for dispatching the trains Telephonic apparatus is now In olecranon ole-cranon over the Shasta division, w it h a total of L'!U miles of circuits. (.Vj-ler (.Vj-ler wire of extreme weight and especially espe-cially drawn for service in a mountainous moun-tainous retrlun Is beln used. Tbe telephone circuit during Ifi hours out of 21 Is cut In.'o two sections, sec-tions, aud during the Ihlrd "trick" the entire circuit Is operated by ono dispatcher. Tl.U circuit covers a 2oi',-mile, 2oi',-mile, section of the main line be-tween be-tween Ashland, Ore., and Red P.lufT, fal., and a branch of 9o miles from Weed, Cal.. to Klamath Falls. Ore The dispatcher is located nt Uuns-t Uuns-t ulr, fal., which is !S miles from Red Bluff, the southern terminal of tills circuit There are 25 stations on the entire circuit, 12 being located between Dunsmuir and Red Uluff. 0 between Duusmulr and Ashland, and 1 between Weed and Klamath Falls. The apparatus for tills dispatching system has been furnished by the Western Electric company, which has made more than HO per cent of the train dispatching telephones now In use Jn the L'nlted States. Passenger and freight tralnn on the Southern Pacific are equipped with portable telephone sets, enabling train nen to get In touch with the dis patcher from any point along the toad |