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Show KNOCKING RAILROAD TRAINS OFF THE TRACKS ! An automobile weighs a ton or two, while a railroad train may weigh a thousand tons, yet in one year automobiles caused twenty-seven twenty-seven derailments. Probably the whole train was never derailed, but it is surprising that even part of it was forced from the tracks. What happened to the passengers of the charging automobiles is easy to reason out. In the same period over ten thousand railway crossing gales were smashed, while many automobiles were stalled on the tracks, and others were demolished by flying trains which weren't derailed. In 1925 over two thousand persons were killed and over six thousand injured at railroad crossings and practically every death could well be labeled "suicide," for we recklessly persist in taking1 the American's gambling chance. ( The only ways in which one may commit suicide at a crossing ! are by trying to beat the train, or paying no attention to what is! coming along the track. The driver who obeys bells, warning! lights and whistles, and approaches crossings with both eyes and ears at attention, is the driver who always has to notify the hos-. pita what happened to the other fellow. Even this is a mean job, but not half so tantalizing as being bumped by a one-thousand ton moving train on its own tracks. |