. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . les are generally to the effect, that, in caseof detention, the train arriving first at the re-gular passing place shall, after waiting a fewmomenXs,proceed cautiously {expecWna to meetthe other train, which is generally runningas much faster, to make up lost time, as thecautious train is slower) until they have metand passed ; the one failing to reach the halfway point between stations being required toback,—a dangerous e.\pedient always,—anexample of which operation was furnished atthe disaster on the Camden a
. Railroad record, and journal of commerce, banking, manufactures and statistics . les are generally to the effect, that, in caseof detention, the train arriving first at the re-gular passing place shall, after waiting a fewmomenXs,proceed cautiously {expecWna to meetthe other train, which is generally runningas much faster, to make up lost time, as thecautious train is slower) until they have metand passed ; the one failing to reach the halfway point between stations being required toback,—a dangerous e.\pedient always,—anexample of which operation was furnished atthe disaster on the Camden and Amboy near Burlington ; the delayed train fur-ther being subjected to the same rule inregard to all other trains of the same class itniay meet, thus pursuing its hazardous anduncertain progress during the entire trip. The following table shows the rate anddirection of subordination for a first-class rail-road : 32 ■^ •r 3 O 3 ^OkI^c; O CM S II-S| & c S S s ro-vA -: -r n r 5-5 2 3=. c W O O ^-T]-T]-Ti-Ti X to S3o csocoooco = 3 I o o o 1 ^■sSEi a 3. All subordinates should be accountable laand (lirecied by ilieir immediate superiors officer must have , wilh theapproval of the general superinlendent, toappoint all employees for whose acts he is re-sponsible, and to dismiss any one, when, inhis judgment, the interests of tlie companydemand it. Fast traveling is one of the most dangerousas well as one of the most expensive luxuriesconnected with the railroad system. Fewcompanies in America have any idea whattheir express trains cost them. Indeed, thoproper means of obtaining quick transport arenot at all understood. It is not by forcing thetrain at an excessive high speed, but by re-ducing the number of stops. A train run-ning four hundred miles,—and stopping oncein fifty minutes,—each stop, including comingto rest and starting, being five minutes,—topass over the whole distance in eight hours,must run fifty-five miles per hour ;
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