The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-17
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Scotia to New Orleans aud l nave
never seen rail of the same weight III
use.
The curves on tine Ocean View rail-
road are not undnly sharp. For an
electric railway they would be consid-
cred moderate, and there is not curve
on it that the heaviest locomotive could
not pass over. L believe the heaviest
locomotives of the Norfolk and Wost
ern do go over this road.
Examining the plan of the accident
Mr.. Johuston said on the plan you
4 hand me see the curve is marked dc
Srees and % minutes. This is IA very
easy curve even for u steam road. |
would think 1t prudent for II car on M
electrical tram TO pass this curve at any
rate of speed you could get at thirty or
forty miles an hour with safety. On
steam roads | have been around them
at fifty miles an hour. As au expert.
ment l have been around them ut
eighty miles.
If an accident occurred al that point
! would not say that 1t was due to
going at the rate of thirty or forty
miles an hour.
l do not think rate OF speed twelve
to twenty. five miles au hour, ut which
tue train is said to have run Friday,
could have produced the accident.
l am thor oughly acquainted with the
electrical equipment OF the Ocean
View road aud the cars.
1t is my opinion that the application
OF the brake to 1t motor car going ut
the E2te of speed indicated would not
cauee 'he front track TO lift, II any
thing at ali = would be the rear track.
II the front truck jumped the truck
and the rear truck remained on the
track, l should give II as opinion that
there must have been some hard sub
stance on the rail that lifted the wheel,
that naturally caused the derDilment.
II could not have been due to the up
plicatIon OF the air brakes alone. /
should think.
To Mr.. Marshall. do not know the
distance the TRUCKS of the cars are
apart. have the drawings, but do
not remember the distance.
The distance from klngbolt TO king
bolt is shorter on an electric car than
steam car because the cars are
shorter. The fact that the electric car
is shorter than the steam car enables
the electric car TO make II shorter turn
than an ordinary passenger car.
The fact that the coupling OF an elec
trio car Is shorter than the steam car
does not make 1t more liable to Jump
the track Mt high rate Of speed than
passenger car on steam road
Alta high rate of speed light chr
would be more apt to Jump the track
than heavier car running at high
rate of speed. The application of the
air brakes with full force tends to make
tho car leave the track. | cannot call
TO mind u single Instance in wnich n
train has left the track from this
cause.
MIR. Johnston eaid the motor car
would weigh about sixteen or eighteen
tons, and that the trailers would weigh
about eight or nine tons.
II. +. QUACKENBUsH,
constructor OF street railroads, resi-.
dence New York. never had charge
of the operating of street railroads f.;
have been constructor Of railroads,
steam and electric, about twenty years.
Mr.. Qnackenbush said 1t is perfectly
safe to run u train around the curve at
Tanners Creek bridge at the rate Of
hiteen or twenty miles per hour.
ROBERT T.. KING,
resident engineer Ocean View railroad.
residence Philndel phia- as been civil
engineer sixteen years; ! know the
construction of the Ocean View ROAD ::
had charge of it; it is well construct
ed road.
The curves on the road are proper
curves.
l. made the survey of the accident.
The plan is correct.
lie curve Is very easy curve.
The distance from the Ocean View
Railroad TO the accident is about 24g
feet less than three mies.
10 Mir. Marshall-Anything over 6
degrees ia considered Sharp curve.
The curves on the ola iiue were no,
changed. They are practically the
same, US we held 20 tue old center
line.
The change WAS simply the widening
OF the narrow gauge TO broad gauge.
and building two new bridges.
TO MIR. luusiall-In tie coDstrun.
tion OF this road it was practically re-
built, with new ties, and iE fact, every
thing necessary to make 1t practically
new road.
WILLIAM PAESILL,
real estate agent, was on the train
August 9th, IN the motor car. front
platform, to the left OF the motormon.
Saw the motormaU. Mr.. Barritt. turn
oil the current shortly before the ncci
dent. just before we got to the second
circuit breaker, some distance from the
bridge. The current was not turned
on again. The airbreke was put on
Yha VARY inckapf tI,ot mn