. The railroad and engineering journal . and automatic brake. The at-tention of the Board of Trade continues to be directed tothe means employable for preventing accidents, not onlyto passengers but to the servants of companies. By thecourtesy of the railway companies, an opportunity wasgiven to the chief officers of the department of seeingmost of the methods suggested with the view of facili-tating the coupling and uncoupling of vehicles. On thewhole the information given in this report shows that theworking of the railways during the year 1886 bears a faircomparison with that of the precedi
. The railroad and engineering journal . and automatic brake. The at-tention of the Board of Trade continues to be directed tothe means employable for preventing accidents, not onlyto passengers but to the servants of companies. By thecourtesy of the railway companies, an opportunity wasgiven to the chief officers of the department of seeingmost of the methods suggested with the view of facili-tating the coupling and uncoupling of vehicles. On thewhole the information given in this report shows that theworking of the railways during the year 1886 bears a faircomparison with that of the preceding year. The com-parative tables also show that the number of the inquiriesin each of the last two years were fully 40 per cent, lessthan in the seven preceding years, and very much lessthan in several years preceding ihat period, when thetraffic on railways and the length of railway open had notreached anything like the present amount. There hasbeen no relaxation during the past year in the progress 457 THE RAILROAD AND [October. Vol. LXI. No. 10.] ENGINEERING JOURNAL. 458 made for rendering railway working more safe by the ex-tension of interlocking and absolute block systems overa larger railway mileage. The extension of theseimprovements, which is made from year to year, aswell as the re-arrangement of stations, the height-ening of platforms, the provision of foot bridges andsubways, and of continuous footboards to carriages,all of which matters have met with considerable attentionfrom the railway companies, will tend to lessen the num-ber of accidents and add to the safety of the travelingpublic. A FRENCH TRAVELING CRANE. The accompanying engravings show a traveling craneof 50 ft. span and a lifting capacity of 3 tons, which is muse in the boiler shop of the Paris. Lyons & MediterraneanRailroad at Oullens. France. These cranes are worked by the shop engine by meansof a fly-rope. The same rope governs the four cranes of the centralnave, one of which is of 20 tons pow
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