Show DROp IS IS Tn In n DC P n T n IU lu I U UL t LU Short Line on Account of Recent Recent Recent Re Re- cent Accident Will Cut Out Hazardous Car Handling The operating department of the Oregon Oreon Oregon Ore Ore- gon on Short Line railroad has placed la laban a aban aban ban on what Is known as the Dutch drop While using this practice in switching at Buhl Buhi last week a freight crow crew missed calculations and a string of or cars dashed clashed Into the locomotive I breaking the arm o of the engineer and tho the leg o of the fireman A court of or In Inquiry Inquiry In- In has lias Just decided that the Dutch drop was responsible so 30 the tho practice practices Is s to be abandoned Vo When hen th the right of way Is on a grade rade and antI standing on a siding or passing track are cars which must be added to toa toa toa a train the cut the engine loose below the tite switch run It up to the he side track and antI take up the slack In n the string The hand hantI brakes are then set and the engine n lne backs down Jon ion tho the main track the switch Is turned turne and the tle locomotive goes ahead on the main line At tho the same time the brakes of the cars on the siding are released and the string allowed to run down onto the main line b by gravity to hitch the train standing there Ot Of course coun e the locomotive Is supposed to have lave made the switch and got out of ot the tho wa- wa way But In the affair at Buhl Buhi to hurry s the thc locomotive gave g the string of ot cars a little start The string followed fol- fol owed lowed the locomotive at such a rapid rate that the engine could not go over the switch reverse and C get t up the main track before the loose cars reached the main line The boxcars hit the cab of the tIme engine and the were painfully Injured |