Download or read book Harper's Weekly written by John Bonner and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ...use shall be available." In its report on the recent Wallingford wreck, the interstate commerce commission did not go so far as to call again for automatic stops on this system, finding more immediate causes for blame in lack of effective supervision and in the failure to install block signals, which naturally would precede any installation of automatic stops. Yet a hint of a future movement by the commission for the new device is given in the announcement that the commission intends to ask Congress for the right to order railroads to adopt such methods and devices as the commission thinks are required for safe operation. The New Haven road has the unique distinction of doing more passenger business than freight business, in money returns, and as a consequence its operating conditions are nearer those of a subway or elevated system than almost any other railroad in the country. The logic of the situation, to the commission, is that railroads which have congested lines should be the first to adopt automatic stops, and that experience should determine how far the system ought to be applied to railroads of different operating conditions. THE recent VVallingford wreck, it is true, is as much a lesson for block signals as it is for automatic train stops. Under the block system an engineman will receive a caution signal long before he reaches a danger signal, or will receive a danger signal in ample time to stop his train. In that wreck the old system of signals used on that section of the railroad did not give a danger signal to the engineman of the Vi/hite Mountain train until he was almost on the Bar Harbor train. Block signals, if he had obeyed them, would have caused him to stop in ample time. Automatic train-stops, however, would...