Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1911 — Monon Railroad Establishes Two New Telegraph Stations. [ARTICLE]

Monon Railroad Establishes Two New Telegraph Stations.

To comply with the state law regarding "block signals,” the Monon has connected up the telephone lines with phones in Rensselaer and at Lee, and established new telegraph stations at Pleasant Ridge and Surrey. These stations have not hitherto maintained telegraph offices or had not for some years. The block system is so operated that when a train going in either direction passes between two stations, a red light is set in action at the next passing track, thus preventing collisions, and some member of the trail, crew gets into communication by telephone with the nearest telegraph station and secures an order to proceed or to await further orders. The system is a benefit to the railroad in one particular, as with the stations far apart, long and unnecessary delays were previously incurred that may now be avoided.