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Show WHIT'S HURRY? ! ENGINEER ASKS William Smith of Union Pacific Pa-cific Has Inside Dope for Impatient Autoist William Smith, engineer for the I lUnlon Pacific between Green River land Ogden in discussing motorists who race with trains for a common cross-' ! ing is puzzled to know Just what all of the hurry in about In regard to the j speed ,,f trains and automobiles. Smith I said yesterday: If auto drivers realized how little j i me they save if they succed In crossing cross-ing in front of an approaching train I thej might be more content to wait until the train got by and thus guar-! antee their own safety. "A local passenger train, consisting' of an engine and four or five coaches, traveling at fortv-flve miles an hour will make 66 feet a second and will be onlv five or six seconds in going over the crossing and a little less Ihin that If making the limit of fifty miles an hour The heaviest overland train with the cars averaging a little more 1 than in local service will genera lly pass' (over a road crossing at the rate of one a second If the auto driver stops at I the track while the train Is still a ; quarter of a rnlle way he will only have to wall about 20 seconds for the train to get to the crossing and then a I f' w seconds more for the train to get i by. 'Most of ihe accidents at highvva I crossings are those in which the auto I gets mixed up w ith high speed trains. Freight trains of 30 cars or less, fro-, Quently travel at the rate of 30 miles i i, hour and. at that rate of speed the shorter curs will be going over, the' crossing at the rate of one a second: ; longer f n ight trains at slow speed ll I use more time, but even then the delay de-lay Is Insignificant "Frequently engineers of trains; I make reports of close calls." but there i does not seem to be much result from ! that course. "Some drivers claim that no warning' was given by the approaching engine, but what, can be said for a man who' strikes the side of a train after the I engine and 'hree or four cars havi Kone by'' (Jr lh man vvhn claims he; would have 'made If If the gate man had not dropped the gate'- He broke, i in- i . i ii ,1 hal )i i - mai nine rr . ! "A few seconds! Is it worth ihe 'risk- I oo |