HOWARD HICKSON'S HISTORIES [Index] Elko: The First 100 Years Elko was the end of the tracks laid from the west by the Central Pacific Railroad in 1868. When CPRR tracklayers moved on east to meet construction crews of the Union Pacific Railroad at Promontory, Utah Territory, they left a small tent town on the banks of the Humboldt River.
By definition, reciprocal switching is âan interchange of inbound and outbound carload freight among railroads in which the cars are switched by one railroad to or from the siding of another under a regular switching charge that is usually absorbed by the carrier receiving the line-haul.â.
(In multiway switching, the correspondence between a single switch's state and whether lights are on or off depends on the state of the other switch[es] in the circuit.) Design. The switches may be single or multiple, designed for indoor or outdoor use. Optional extras may include dimmer-controls, environmental protection, weather and security protection. In residential and light commercial lighting systems, the light switch directly controls the circuit feeding the lamps.