. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . to be habituallyneglected on the Pennsylvania system is provided with the verybest mechanical appliances for keepingtrains from touching each other, yet thedaily practices vitiate all the precautionsmade to insure safety. You say that a high oflicial of therailroad made the singular admissionthat trains do run past the cautionaryor green signals very frequently eachday, at a speed of sixty miles an hour,but we do not consider that to be nec- liiuiishmcnt. Perhaps behind him is ah
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . to be habituallyneglected on the Pennsylvania system is provided with the verybest mechanical appliances for keepingtrains from touching each other, yet thedaily practices vitiate all the precautionsmade to insure safety. You say that a high oflicial of therailroad made the singular admissionthat trains do run past the cautionaryor green signals very frequently eachday, at a speed of sixty miles an hour,but we do not consider that to be nec- liiuiishmcnt. Perhaps behind him is ahigh oflicial whose policy it was toencourage the violation of rules. In thatcase he is the real criminal and oughtto be held personally responsible. American travelers who have had ex-perience with British train service andunderstand the crowded condition of therailways on that side, marvel that theimmense traffic is conducted with so fewaccidents. The reason is that block sig-nal protection is universal, and train rulesare enforced strictly. When an accidentdoes happen there the cause is investi-. BALL.\ST WAGON. LONDON. BRIGHTON AND SuL TH COAST RAILWAY essarily unsafe. That is a remarkablyfrank admission, but it is by no meanssingular, for similar practices prevail onnearly all railroads, and they are the di-lect cause of nearly all accidents thathappen on block signal protected rail-roads. An expensive system of block signalequipment, which will absolutely preventtrains from coming together if the rulesare obeyed, is introduced on a prevent loopholes through which ac-cidents pass, the officials of the railroadare supposed to see that the rules con-trolling the perfected system of protec-tion are obeyed strictly, and that everyengineer taking on himself the responsi-bility of running past a danger signal isdisciplined for the oflfense. In practice,unfortunately, this strict obedience toimportant rules is not enforced. Getyour train through on time, is an im-perat
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