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Notes on Railroad Accidents

Notes on Railroad Accidents

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NOTES
ON
RAILROAD ACCIDENTS

BY

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Jr.
AUTHOR OF "RAILROADS: THEIR ORIGIN AND PROBLEMS."

NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
27 and 29 West 23d Street


Copyright
1879
By G. P. Putnam's Sons


CONTENTS.

CHAPTER.   PAGE.
I The death of Mr. Huskisson 3
II The Angola and Shipton accidents 12
III The Wollaston accident 20
IV Accidents and conservatism 27
V Telescoping and the Miller Platform 43
VI The Versailles accident 58
VII Telegraphic collisions 66
VIII Oil-tank accidents 72
IX Draw-bridge disasters 82
X The Norwalk accident 89
XI Bridge accidents 98
XII The protection of bridges 111
XIII Car-couplings in derailments 117
XIV The Revere catastrophe 125
XV Rear-end collisions 144
XVI Novel appliances 153
XVII The automatic electric block system 159
XVIII Interlocking 182
XIX The Westinghouse brake 199
XX The battle of the brakes 216
XXI The railroad journey resulting in death 230
XXII The railroad death-rate 241
XXIII American as compared with foreign railroad accidents 250

PREFACE.

This volume makes no pretence whatever of being either an exhaustive or a scientific study of the subject to which it relates. It is, on the contrary, merely what its title signifies,—a collection of notes on railroad accidents. In the course of ten years service as one of the railroad commissioners of Massachusetts, I was called upon officially to investigate two very serious

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