. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . iul amilaiiiciilal)lc tiling, especially when attend-ed with the horrors of burning wreck-age, loss of life, and maiming of humanbeings who have entrusted their livesto the kioping of railway companies onwhose train lliey select have stood aghast at the .ip- CONDUCTBD BT F. M. NBLLIS. a striking evidence favorable tr. their as but one life was lost, wlicreas, under slightly diflferent circumstances the cn- ^et. in the midst of it all, some do not tire
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . iul amilaiiiciilal)lc tiling, especially when attend-ed with the horrors of burning wreck-age, loss of life, and maiming of humanbeings who have entrusted their livesto the kioping of railway companies onwhose train lliey select have stood aghast at the .ip- CONDUCTBD BT F. M. NBLLIS. a striking evidence favorable tr. their as but one life was lost, wlicreas, under slightly diflferent circumstances the cn- ^et. in the midst of it all, some do not tire train-load of passengers would have see that much of the costs and many of accompanied the brave engineer to death the accidents could be averted if more in the waters of the were paid tn brakes, both with A retrospection of conditions attending re--pect to care of the present brakes this accident is interesting. A year and anil the availability of best brakes. a half ago the officials of the road. We arc prompted to present the above realizing thai letter and best brakes were. VVESI-INGHOISE TRACTION BRAKE EXHIBIT AT ELECTRIC STREET CAR CONVENTION, SEPTEMBER St., PHILADELPHIA. PA. parent utter recklessness of Americanrailroad practices, and we have grown ina measure to look upon them as a nat-ural consequence of railroad transporta-tion and a heritage of our system andmethods, feeling satisfied that we areslowly but surely improving, as the lossof life statistics show, and that we aregradually diminishing our accidents perpassenger mile. On our American railroads each freshaccident horror is met with submissivesorrow and honest but vain regret. Thenfollows the usual damage suits and settle-ment of obituary claims, railroad man-agers meanwhile realizing that such costs,if possible nf elimination, would result in facts for more serious consideration be-cause of a recent accident on one of theprominent lines, whose traffic is dense,and train speeds high. A sw
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