Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-11-21 | Page 18 | "Don't Try to Beat the Train," Says Tom Davis

f TRY TO BEAT TRAIN SAYS TOM DAVIS t If You Do Youre You're Flirting With De Death th and De De-A i i t y f t J I i I The motoring public Is becoming t gradually r u lf e educated to the tho t folly llY ot rae rae- tin aih tf lf if 6 fe gr de s bU but this' this r process process' ss ot- ot at s seems to tobe toi i be mighty gradual and it would also I seem I seem that the lesson must be learned at terrible costs I In commenting on the deplorable aci ac- ac i at railroad crossings duo in almost every instance to the driver ot of Ithe the automobile trying to beat the train train to It Sales Manager Tom DavisI Davis I I lof of the the Dodd Randall Automobile com com- i pan pany pany intermountain Buick Bulck I tors tore tors says An Instinctive insistent j something deep dt down rn I within lnE all of us i r ur I Us beat to-beat t the train Every few days the train wins one of these thes races and death deuth and disaster are the reI re- re reI I I suits It is certainly to be hoped that we will all know better one of these daysI days I i was talking to an nn old time timo railroad railroad railroad rail rail- j road engineer the other day who has j watched many a motorist step on It When he saw a freight train looming up This engineer r was something of a philosopher and although he always managed to prevent a crash he could not help grimly smiling each time atthe atthe at atthe the foil folly of the motorist who ma made e ethe the dash across the tracks in front of the charging locomotive If auto uto drivers realized how little I time they saved if they succeed In crossing in front of an approaching train train tey might be more content to wait until the train got by and thus thua guarantee their own own safety A A l local al passenger train consisting consisting- of an ah engine and four or five coaches traveling tt tI a rate of forty-five forty miles milts an hour will make sixty-six sixty feet a second and und will only be five or six seconds sec eec ends in going over the crossing and anil a little less than that if making the lImit of fifty miles an hour The rhe heavier overland train with the tho cars cars averaging f a little longer Vf r than in local service will generally I pass over v a road crossing at the rate of or one a see sec see see-I ond end If the auto driver stops at the trac while the train is still a quarter of a mile away ho he will only have to 1 wait alt about twenty seconds for train to 10 get to th the tho crossing and then a few seconds more for yie ie train to get by r Most lost of tho the a accidents at highway crossing arc are those In In which the auto I gets mixed up with the hi high h speed trains trains trains of thirty cars or cr Jess lesa frequently travel at tho the rate of m ls l's an hour and at that rato rate of sp the Shorter cars will be go going go- go I ing log over 11 the crossing at the rate of one a a second longer freight trains at slower I speed would use more time but eVAn ev then the delay Is Insignificant In lii n no case concluded Davis Is I the risk worth the few seconds of time sa saved veil only perhaps to be heedlessly I wasted a few furlongs up the road I