Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-25
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SAFETY ON TRAINS.
In What Part Should the Cautious
Man Ride.

In What Part Should the Cautious
Man Ride:
From the indianapolis News
One of the unsolved problems in railroad
irg is the question as to the safest place on
a train. Many have commended that it is
just safe on the engine it is in the
cars, and point to the fact that in many
instances the engine has passed over a
broken bridge while the balance of the
train went down. Others insist that the
rear is the safest, because there are
fewer rear end collisions than any other
kind. There are people who are strong in
the belief that there is no place of safety
on a train, and that one runs as much risk
in one spot in another. On some roads
special cars are always placed in the center
of the train, but for what purpose is not
clear.
That is hard question to answer" said
General Manager Bradbury of the Lake
Erie and Western. when interrogat ted, flor
it is like asking where is the best place for
a man to fall. The question of safety de-
ponds, in a measure on the length of
train. A train made up of a smoker and
day coach could have no particularly safe
spots and the passenger would be in as
much danger in the event of a collision in
one car as in the other. On long trains l
think that IL there is any difference there
is more safety in a car or two from the
rear of train. However, generally ride
in the rear car. Men have become old and
gray as conductors and engineers and yet
young men are killed as often as any
other"
Il should say two or three cars from the
rear end of long train said General
Superintendent Van Wrinkle of the Big
Four. If there is a head collision, the
cars in front of the train take the brlnlt of
the crash, and the cars are SO well built
that there is not so much danger close to
the rear of the train. This holds good in
the event of rear collision. Cars used in
cur fast trains are so heavily vestibuled
that they could not spring over each other,
as used to happen with the light coaches in
use years ago. They are solidly coupled,
crushing each other. An engine plunging
into train could not go through two or
three coaches. 1t might get part way into
one coach, but that is all. The danger from
crossing collisions where one train strikes
another on the side, is small. There are
few such accidents nowadays. We all know
that sometimes the rear car of train run
EiEg at a high speed is whipped from the
rails on a sharp curve, but that seldom
happens"
The second car from the rear is about
as safe as any," said General Manager Bar
Eard of the Peoria and Eastern. Il think
the rear end of train is safer for a pas
serger, for the reason that there are fewer
rear-end collisions than there are butting
collisions. AS to derailments, it has been
demonstrated that the engine and one or
two cars leaving the rails seldom pull other
cars with them. When they go off the
the brakes, and stops the other ears. I
Usually ride at the rear of the train. but
l have never considered the question you
have asked"