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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