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Show Dead Man at Controls; Train Slows Down Easy GREENVILLE, PA. Fred Luce, 68, a veteran Erie railroad passenger engineer of Meadville, Pa., made his first trip on one of the railroad's new passenger diesel locomotives. He was told he must keep a "dead man's pedal" ped-al" pressed to the floor of the cab or the airbrakes would stop the train automatically. A few days later, passengers on Erie train No. 7, New York to Chicago flyer, felt the train come to a gentle, unscheduled stop a few miles east of Greenville. Luce's fireman, Tom E. Johnston of Meadville, looked across the cab. Luce was on the floor, his foot off the pedal. Dr. R. W. Brown of Greenville, a passenger, said the engineer died of a heart attack. |