. Annual report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois . ne. Of the other six cars, two were partly loaded and four were empty, but inthe case of the derailed car, all the dirt had been unloaded from thepockets on the east side of the car, and a very little from the pockets onthe west side. As the center of gravity of the loads in the pockets on one side is within afoot or so of the side of the car, the car was certain to bincll on its bearings,and this binding caused the derailing of the one truck when the truckcame to the curve back of the main line switch. The pas
. Annual report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Illinois . ne. Of the other six cars, two were partly loaded and four were empty, but inthe case of the derailed car, all the dirt had been unloaded from thepockets on the east side of the car, and a very little from the pockets onthe west side. As the center of gravity of the loads in the pockets on one side is within afoot or so of the side of the car, the car was certain to bincll on its bearings,and this binding caused the derailing of the one truck when the truckcame to the curve back of the main line switch. The passing track was in safe condition for the operation of work trains,but it happened that there was some eight or ten inches of elevation on thecurve back of the main line frog, and when the truck derailed, the body ofthe carleft the trucks, and upset, blocking both main lines. There were a number of men, workmen on the construction gang, whowere on the car, and as the engine was merely going out to do a littleswitching they stayed on the car, and were thrown out on the main tracks. 339 when the body of the car turned over. One of the workmen falling onthe rail received injuries from which he died in twenty minutes. Theother four, the extent of whose injuries had not been ascertained, weretaken to the hospital at Kankakee. Derailments of this kind are common on construction work, but as thecars are handled carefully and at low speed, there is generally no seriousresults, but a side dumping car of this kind should not have been movedwhen one side was loaded and the other empty, as the inequalities of evenstraight track, under construction unevenly surfaced and unblasted mighthave caused a similar derailment, and I am inclined to think that both thecrew and the foreman in charge of the men are at fault in moving a carso unevenly loaded. My general experience in matters of this kind is that crews will notmove even flat bottomed coal cars or flat cars where the load is veryuneven, not
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