A MOVING TRAIN | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, March 17, 1885

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 62, No. 11

A MOVING TRAIN.

An electrician has been engaged in constructing a special railway telegraph system along one track of the New York and New Haven Railroad, from the Harlem River to the main line at New Rochelle, to establish communication; also to give instant communication between trains in motion, by “way” or “terminal” stations, of any train on a road at any moment; and, if traveling at the rate of speed, to send a message to the station, or announce his destination. Mr. Phelps, one of the directors of the company, yesterday made the practical test of his instruments at the Harlem River station. On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Conley, conductor of baggage car No. 116, sent the following message:

“To Lucius S. Phelps: Congratulations from the employees of the New Haven and Hudson River. Greater success in your work. CONLEY, Conductor.”

The train had gone more than two miles when the message was received on board. Yesterday the company entered the Harlem River Station at 2 for the final test of the invention. “We are all right.” Other messages. New York Tribune.