. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . unted flagman, who,although he very often form part of a rail-road procession, is not intended for show,nor is his flag inscribed with any mottoor badge. In the city of New York acertain amount of switching has to be doneevery day on the tracks of the New YorkCentral Railroad below Thirtieth dummy engine burning hard coal isused, and as it moves slowly along thestreets, notably on Tenth avenue, it ispreceded by a man on horseback, carryinga red flag. The mounted flagman is in-tended
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . unted flagman, who,although he very often form part of a rail-road procession, is not intended for show,nor is his flag inscribed with any mottoor badge. In the city of New York acertain amount of switching has to be doneevery day on the tracks of the New YorkCentral Railroad below Thirtieth dummy engine burning hard coal isused, and as it moves slowly along thestreets, notably on Tenth avenue, it ispreceded by a man on horseback, carryinga red flag. The mounted flagman is in-tended to warn all and sundry of theapproach of the locomotive and cars, andthus the progress is made from the Thir-tieth street freight yards to the old NewYork Central station at Desbrosses street. At one time the taking away of thisprivilege was mooted and it appears thatthe Common Council of the City had un- Council which recites, among other things :The Committee on Law Department, towhom was referred the annexed resolutionforbidding the use by the New York Cen-tral and Hudson River Railroad Company. AT THE YARD, N. Y. C, MOUNTED FLAGMAN WAITINGFOR THE DUMMY ENGINE. of locomotives or dummy engines southof Sixty-fifth street, and to repeal theresolutions of June 22, 1867, permittingsuch use, do respectfully report: The first regulation of the motor to beused on said railway south of Thirtiethstreet appears to have been by resolutionof the Common Council of December 4,1S50, under which a steam dummy enginewas authorized to be run subject to cer-tain conditions to secure the public safety—the speed not to exceed six miles perhour—the machine to be preceded by aman on horseback to give warning of itsapproach, and under such further direc-tion as the Common Council may fromtime to time prescribe. That majority report bears date Decem-ber 18, 1885, and was signed by EdwardF. ODwyer, James T. Van Rensselaer,and Bankson T. Morgan, Committee on
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