Excerpt from A System of Automatic Train Control
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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