. Electric railway journal . tion Com-pany of Indiana was awarded the Anthony N. Bradymedal for its 1915 safety record, as announced in theissues of this paper for Jan. 22 and Feb. 5, the editorshave secured from President Arthur W. Brady of thatcompany some details of this record. Statistics Relating to SafetyThe company last year operated more than 400 milesof single track, of which 47 miles were in cities and330 on private right-of-way. Practically 17,000,000passengers were carried and more than 8,000,000 car-miles were run. Out of about $6,135 earned per mile of track $243was set aside for
. Electric railway journal . tion Com-pany of Indiana was awarded the Anthony N. Bradymedal for its 1915 safety record, as announced in theissues of this paper for Jan. 22 and Feb. 5, the editorshave secured from President Arthur W. Brady of thatcompany some details of this record. Statistics Relating to SafetyThe company last year operated more than 400 milesof single track, of which 47 miles were in cities and330 on private right-of-way. Practically 17,000,000passengers were carried and more than 8,000,000 car-miles were run. Out of about $6,135 earned per mile of track $243was set aside for accident claims, although but $53%was required. The ratio of accident costs to gross in-come was per cent. The company employed on an average 1394 personsand operated 232 passenger cars and forty-eight freightcars, 221 of the cars being motor cars. On the systemare 1361 highway grade crossings in a highly pros-perous country, and the cars operate through active andwide-awake cities, in a section where one out of every. TRACK REARRANGEMENT AT MUNCIE CARHOUSE The company has three dispatch offices located atimportant division terminals, which take care of thedispatching of interurban trains. In each of thesedispatch offices there are four dispatchers, a chief andthree assistants. The dispatching is done in threetricks; one six-hour trick, and two nine-hour chief dispatcher takes care of the light, six-hourtrick; two dispatchers are used for the afternoon nine-hour trick, and one for the night nine-hour trick. Inaddition to working the six-hour trick, the chief dis-patcher rides certain trains each day on his division,so as to get closely in touch with the train crews andto instruct them in train operation. The dispatchcircuits are connected to all sidings, stations and sub-stations, making it possible for the dispatcher readily tocommunicate with a train crew at any point dispatching is done by what is known as thedouble order system, that is, the sa
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