. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . Flagging in Winter. Even in the ^^^^^t^T^^ ^^^^rs:;;i:rotrt!naf:nr.;cted puce danger oLif brakeman does not at once go back and ..t^ryiacLA tai end brakeman has various anxieties, which cannot be de-faiJir Often there is ^jf^^^^t^;::):^- 392 2HE EVERY-DAY LIFE OF RAILROAD MEN: his train to look out for itself, because of a visit from a huge bearwhose residence was in the woods near the point on the railroadwhere the brakemanwas keeping- his lonelyniofht-viofil. The danger of sud-den accide
. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . Flagging in Winter. Even in the ^^^^^t^T^^ ^^^^rs:;;i:rotrt!naf:nr.;cted puce danger oLif brakeman does not at once go back and ..t^ryiacLA tai end brakeman has various anxieties, which cannot be de-faiJir Often there is ^jf^^^^t^;::):^- 392 2HE EVERY-DAY LIFE OF RAILROAD MEN: his train to look out for itself, because of a visit from a huge bearwhose residence was in the woods near the point on the railroadwhere the brakemanwas keeping- his lonelyniofht-viofil. The danger of sud-den accidental deathor maiming is constant. Coupling. and great, and thebare record of the nu-merous cases is acute-ly suggestive of in-expressible suffering ;but, strange to say, itdoes not worry theaverage brakemanmuch. Though probably a thousand trainmen are killed in thiscountry every year, and four or five thousand injured, by collisionsand derailments, in coupling cars, falling off trains, striking lowoverhead bridges, and from other causes, no one brakeman, fromwhat he sees in his own experience, realizes the danger very viv-idly. As in other dangers which are constant but inevitable, famil-iarity breeds carelessness which is closely akin to contempt. Fall-ing from trains is really a serious danger, because the mostceaseless caution—next to impossible for the average man tomaintain—is necessary to avoid missteps. This will be practicallyabolished when the long-wished-for air-brake oomes into use, asthat will obviate the necessity of riding on the tops of the cars. Coupling accidents are practically unavoidable becaus
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