. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . icon and illus-trated lectures on Safety will be givento employees at various points. The New York Central Lines have adepartment devoted entirely to safetywork and a systematic effort to bringabout a reduction of all classes of acci-dents has been made for some time the work is proving successful isindicated in a statement appearing in aframe in the car, showing that on the\cw York Central & Hudson River andLake Shore and Michigan Southern, twoof the N. Y. C. Lines, there were 35 feweremployees killed on duty in only fourmonths after the safety
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . icon and illus-trated lectures on Safety will be givento employees at various points. The New York Central Lines have adepartment devoted entirely to safetywork and a systematic effort to bringabout a reduction of all classes of acci-dents has been made for some time the work is proving successful isindicated in a statement appearing in aframe in the car, showing that on the\cw York Central & Hudson River andLake Shore and Michigan Southern, twoof the N. Y. C. Lines, there were 35 feweremployees killed on duty in only fourmonths after the safety work wasina\igurated. Cost of Stopping a Train. .\ccording to Signal Engineer J. , of the Chicago and Northwest-ern Railway, who investigated the matteron his own line, the cost of stopping atrain of 530 tons and returning to a speedof fifty miles an hour is 42 cents. Thecost of stopping a 2,000-ton train fromthirty-five miles an hour is $1. Theofficials of another road estimate eachstop of a six-car passenger train from. IXTKKHk |- K.\li devoted to the trespass question andthere are a number of pictures showinghow persons risk their lives needlesslytrespassing on railroad property. Abovethese trespass pictures is a statement call-ing attention to the fact that more than forty-five miles an hour at 35 cents, andfor a train from fifteen milesan hour at 56 cents. The time that islost for making a stop on a level straighttrack has been estimated at 145 secondsby careful engineers. 308 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. September, 1913. General Correspondence Old : Without desiring to dampen the en-thusiasm of your correspondent, Keene Hirschberg, or disparagethe mechanical ability of Prof. Stumpf, Icall attention to the fact that Dr. Hirsch-berg is wholly in error in his statementthat the newly operated locomotive towhich he refers, in which the are in the middle section of thecylinder, is a valuable and startl
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