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Show RIO GRANDE 1 ROADjINED I Santa Fe, X M". May 2. The Den- Spf. er & Rio Grande railroad was "today 1ilr found guilty on four counts by Federal icssi11 Judge Pope of violation of the federal j2f! statute fixing the maximum hours of J"!c"r service for train crews at sixteen fSrSS.1 hours. lip' The court held that holding a train SStSS on a siding to allow another train ' to pass, even with the waiting train's Ss headlight extinguished, switch locked, -!r; brakemen asleep and engineer read- rJ? Ing, does not constitute a" break in the !ei sixteen-hour maximum of service pro- SJUETo' vlded by law. ffi&a? Tho railroad was fined $250 and CR0SSH costs. 2 |