. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . so satis-factory is the action of the dead manshandle that if an automobile is recklesslydriven across the front of the train on aroad crossing all the man in charge of thepower has to do is to let go of the handle,seek safety if need be, and the powerful,but uncomprehending mechanism setsabout at once arresting the motion of thetrain and doing it in minimum time. Here the danger of sudden and unlookedfor physical disability is amply recognized and adequately provided for. All thatsafety dema
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . so satis-factory is the action of the dead manshandle that if an automobile is recklesslydriven across the front of the train on aroad crossing all the man in charge of thepower has to do is to let go of the handle,seek safety if need be, and the powerful,but uncomprehending mechanism setsabout at once arresting the motion of thetrain and doing it in minimum time. Here the danger of sudden and unlookedfor physical disability is amply recognized and adequately provided for. All thatsafety demands for the preservation ofthe lives of those who have trusted them-selves to the companys care has beendone fully and properly and with thishigh-minded single end in view. The iso-lated man in the cab, though temporarilyovercome or permanently stricken down,cannot jeopardize the lives of thosewhose safety the company has thus farguaranteed. The isolated occupant of the cab is, how-ever, not yet actually safe from may be alone, but he is liable tomomentary lapses of the mind. He may be. CAR WITH DEAD MAXS HANDLE STAND-ING AGAINST STOP SIGNAL. the prey of sudden impulses or he may bethe victim of mind distraction, emotion,fear, flurry or inchoate thought, and solie in a worse plight than the man whofailed through physical weakness or thedirect attack of disease. We have all seen the front brakemanof a freight train run ahead of the engineto throw a switch. We have known himto reach a switch which by accident ordesign had been set right for the oncom-ing train, and we have seen him de-liberately throw the correctly-placed pairof switch-rails to the wrong position al-most under the truck wheeds of the en-gine while he himself was mastered by therelentless power of the idea that he mustdo something—he must act. Little shortof violence will make such a man becomerational again, and too often he onlyawakens from this state of mind when hehas succeeded in putting the engi
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