It🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s actually a diagram of a telephonic dispatching system that the company was planning to install on its city and interurban lines, replacing a mixed telegraph/phone system. As telegraphs needed a skilled operator at every location, the benefits of a telephone – which almost any member of staff could readily use – were very apparent.

So instead of traditional stations along each line, the diagram instead shows the locations of these new-fangled telephones, spaced roughly a mile-and-a-half apart. Sometimes these were stations or car barns – but not always, as locations like “1/4 mile S. of Kenoche Road” attest.

The Buffalo city streetcars are arrayed out at the bottom of the diagram, spreading out from the company🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s private telephone exchange in Buffalo and arranged in correct topological order, while the interurban lines pass through the the despatch (sic) board on their way to Niagara Falls, Lockport and other distant destinations. It can be noted that one of the telephones on the Niagara Falls dispatching circuit is located in the Men🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s Room of the company🔸AB开奖网澳洲幸运10官网网页s Niagara Falls offices!

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划final word: 🔸澳洲幸运10预测A telephonic circuit diagram that almost perfectly mimics the modern transit diagram in form. Fascinating! Read the full article from the Street Railway Journal🔸澳洲幸运10预测 for full details about the telephone network, including a great passage about how orders were sent, repeated and confirmed to be accurate by all parties over a telephone line.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: The Internet Archive

I thought I was all done with “to scale” maps of North American rail systems, but then Dennis McClendon (see previous posts from him) sent in this beautiful series of maps that he produced for Planning magazine back in 1984. Dennis himself says:

Given this week’s Tumblr theme, I thought you might be interested in these maps that I did in 1984, 🔸澳洲开奖 I worked for Planning magazine. The “new wave” of modern light rail systems was just getting started. My initial idea was to do them all at the same scale, but integrating them with the text into a two-page magazine layout eventually required a compromise of doing them at two distinctive scales.

No GIS or even Illustrator in those days: I created these using Rubylith and Chartpak flexible line tape.

Of note is the large number of systems that were either brand new or still under construction: Portland’s “Banfield” line – now the main section of line between downtown and Gateway – being especially noticeable to me. Also – massive extensions under construction for the Washington DC Metro, and the parlous state of streetcars in New Orleans, with service on the historical St. Charles line only.

And just to throw further fuel onto the fire regarding the categorization of certain systems as either light rail or streetcar, which many commenters on Matt Johnson’s map brought up. In 1984 at least: Pittsburgh and Boston’s Green Line were classified as “light rail” while Philadelphia and the San Francisco Muni were seen as “streetcar”. Make of that what you will.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Dennis McClendon via email.

Have we been there?🔸澳洲幸运10预测 No.

What we like:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 It tells us where the trains stop. That is all.

What we don’t like:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Where to begin? The hilarious usage of a train symbol at each and every station, just so we don’t forget that trains🔸澳洲幸运10预测 might run on this light rail system. Uninspired and even downright ugly typography. Dark blue graphics on a dark green background are very hard to see, while red type on that same green background clashes horribly. Finally, the ridiculously over-the-top ornate compass rose puts the finishing touches on a complete disaster. Really, it’s just one line🔸澳洲幸运10预测: things shouldn’t be this hard.

🔸澳洲幸运10冠军定位计划rating:🔸澳洲幸运10预测 Ughh. Half a star.

🔸澳洲幸运10开奖官网开奖结果走势图🔸Source: Official NFTA website – map no longer exists