. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . FIG. 2. MARKER LIGHTS, GREEN TO REAR WHEN ON SIDING TO BE PASSED BY TRAIN RUNNING IN SAME DIRECTION. The Murphy Method has been themeans of decreasing the percentage ofaccidents on our railroads, caused byimproper interpretation of orders, ex-pressed to the employees, by means ofthe signals in certain positions. In rail-road operation it is impossible to avoidaccidents that occur, due to the givingway of equipment. But Mr. Murphyhas always contended that accidents due. FIG. 4. MARKER LIGHTS,
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . FIG. 2. MARKER LIGHTS, GREEN TO REAR WHEN ON SIDING TO BE PASSED BY TRAIN RUNNING IN SAME DIRECTION. The Murphy Method has been themeans of decreasing the percentage ofaccidents on our railroads, caused byimproper interpretation of orders, ex-pressed to the employees, by means ofthe signals in certain positions. In rail-road operation it is impossible to avoidaccidents that occur, due to the givingway of equipment. But Mr. Murphyhas always contended that accidents due. FIG. 4. MARKER LIGHTS, RED TO REARON MAIN LINE. to lack of understanding of signals,,should be practically eliminated from-our railroad practice. While the author of this method ofinstruction was superintendent of theCincinnati division of the road, a rigidsystem of examination was enforced,. March, 1908. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 3 and the influence/ of the training re-ceived at that time has been an import-ant clement in bringing the CincinnatiSouthern men up to their well knownstandard of move that has been made on the
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