| Show 1 I M 50 i A I tl rr t f 11 Se S rJ 1961 2 Crl id r 43 First 5 Jr This Yeas t I N n a average nerae M Eo CO trains as asay ay are wrecked or in the teat u ta p W tW b of year nar I were er reported to to the coerce merce commission lon The nIe toll toU was wat wa US 13 persona perona killed arid add Jur pd This ThIa is death tod nd destruction n at ata a pace paCt even tveD faster than in the bad last latt year ear for Jor tile the tame same two month months In 1648 1948 the figures Were were 2753 2758 mishaps deaths and 2119 injured It If the accidents continue at the rate this years rears toll toU will top the toll toU of teat lat year ear which had crackups 43 U deaths and and 20 20 m injured I Some Some Are g Some of the wre wree hae been minor causing only small maU property damage But others I t ba hs t e a been be headlined with great areat loss lose of life Many Nan of the country country's crack trains train presumably carrying the most modern modern safety equipment equIpment have hive been been involved All AD this hat bas Jed ed studa p G c of the tte Problem to raise two questions qu Whet What causes all aU them What's Whan being done to top Stop them Expert as ert that almost a olt all an anI I train mishaps result from in either r of workmen or faulty fault i equipment And Abel tile they find and that hu hu- hu hu human man man errors are more ram re to o blame bl e than mechanical all Study St J 01 of 89 ae accident reports to Interstate Commeree Commerce commission Ibm hows that 87 IT 57 of them to In n which killed and were fere injured were wera caused by carelessness of ems em- em 01 3 jy y 27 37 21 f hieb hI and in- in inJured ell 8 Vere w r laid f to equipment trouble The most common manpower weakness abel is I found to be failure t t to 1 1 aI speed when rules ruI rules and common e senit alike called cau- cau were blamed for 11 2 accidents Careless switching resulted in II U I oj i f A u t Ae 4 f tort ar equipment q equipment p nt t th t i oi deadly failure J is le the thet t broken broken rail I raILI onne wrecks of the 89 lID studied were wert Said Ho to with wl h a n l a atoll toll of U 13 dead and d Good toads roads a check their th rails FaUs regu- regu re o I I I Mechanical laU n J Cb aI J at at I en wrecked time Um the e Cascade Ml- Ml Ml ral rage agea cat of ot the t Pennsyl- Pennsyl P f S t ta e t 11 p pr P r t f t Hof Hofe he al Ul top of e Vide nt d ki tr ot and m a half baU and and a Yipped tipped over an in an embank embank J S iWI ep es f N jj e t brok x 1 Investigators J said laid the the car broke because le ca IU a tt cotter pin pin phi had hac used to fasten fasten coupler that wouldn't t lock IOeL e What are f are the Die railroads doing to toco cut co down the accident toUT toll They 1111 Th y say lay they th are u are trying their beat through the th most mot modern de de- de Vices which aril an- ar being put Into feral wal er use Ute as I fast tast ai a money mon mate meta fait and manufacturing capacity One On of these thel is U I a signal signal device In la a a locomotive om Uv tab cab It show jUon in the block iq In which the loco loco- loco loco- locomotive motive is b If It after entering a clear block another train intrudes or a ariU rail riU breaks b ak the th cab signal changes chanta and Jaud the the engineer can stop top This ThI device was wa was shown hOWD to have prevented a second wreck on May Na 1 latter after steel teet plates plat on onn a freight had tipped ripped the aides lide of th the vanla's American One On plate fall faU janta lug ing to the rails set let the cab signal tn In loan a n Incoming freight which was brought to a top stop Otherwise the second freight would have piled Into the American American |
