Excerpt from A System of Automatic Train Control: A Thesis Presented by Charles Woodward Morgan to the President and Faculty of Armour Institute of Technology for the Degree of Mechanical Engineer Having Fulfilled the Required Conditions Preparatory to Making Such Presentation
The first of these installations was made on the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad in 1891; the second, on the Intramural Railway at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893; the third, on the Chicago and South Side Rapid Transit Railroad in 1893 and 1894; the fourth, on the Metropolitan west Side Elevated Railroad of Chicago, in 1894 and 1895; the fifth, at Hawley, Ill. At the crossing of the St. Louis, Peoria and Northern with the Peoria, Decatur and Evansville; the sixth on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul between Pacific Junction and Edgebrook in 1902; and the seventh, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad near Aurora, Ill. For the purpose of the government test. In 1908.
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