Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 February 1911 — Monon Station to Have Still Another Operator in Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

Monon Station to Have Still Another Operator in Rensselaer.

— •• -- ' - Commencing with March Ist, when the new block system will be put into operation on the Monon railroad, another operator will be put at work in Rensselaer and the work now done by two operators will be divided into three shifts, or “tricks,” fn the language of the operators. Agent Beam will have charge of the force and each shift will probably work nine hours, hanging over an hour on the next man’s time. Elmer Wilcox will probably work from 7 a. m. to 4 p. m., Frank Busha, the present night man, will have one of the other shifts, and a new man will take the third trick. v T. G. Anderson, who is acting as an instructor for the method of operating under the block signal system, was here for that purpose today, Friday. - He states that the system will require operators at Surrey, Pleasant Ridge and Lee, but not at McCoysburg. Mr. Anderson thinks the plan will be very acceptable to the railroad when in operation and that the extra cost will be largely offset by the protection to the road’s equipment and to the traveling public.