Evening journal., 1914-01-14
PENNSY'S WORK
FOR SAFETY
Pamphlet Gives Review Of
Varied Undertakings by
the Company
HISTORY o. EVLRY
RAIL ON THE ROAD

Copies of a pamphlet issued by the
Pennsylvania railroad on is safety
work, giving Information as TO the
great care that is beng exercised to
keep its employees and parons out OF
harms way. have been rcefved by
local officials of the p. B., & w. r.
f. Co. The pamphlet, which contains
2S pages, embodies the measures taken
and the work done by the road in the
cause OF safety.
The Pennsylvania line last year,
technically stated, carried 25,3S2, 2,004,-
55S tons of freight and 2,773,7S3, ,O39
passengers. -Four passengers and 10
employees were killed in train acct
dents All these passengers were kill
ed in one accident. For the first six
months of 1913 no passenger was
killed in a train accident on the
road.
The pamphlet also says that the
Pennsylvania's roadbed is OF the high
est standard The main lines are laid
entirely with stone ballast The COM
pany paid S2,095 last year to main
tain 1876 miles of track. This was
as compared with an average OF 81, ,553
for all the territory east of the
Mississippi river.
Particularly impressive is the ac-
count of the close inspection of the
steel rails used, TO insure soundness
of metal. proper manufacture and
sure laying. While a rail is being
rolled it is carefully inspected by a
representative of the company, and
one rail out of every heat is tested for
the interior fabric Of the steel.
A comprehensive system OF blanks
and reports has been devised whereby
the history of each rail is recorded.
One series of blanks covers infOrma-
ton obtained at the mill during manu-
facture. A second series relates to rail
failures in main track. The company
keeps a complete history Of every
rail purchased, and is thus able to
classify failures and more carefully
guard against repetition.
After the rail is placed in the track,
special guardian, the track-walker.
is placed over It. There are 600 track
walkers employed by the Pennsyl-
Vania railroad. They patrol the pas
: senger tracks at night 20 see that all
rails, nuts. bolts ana cross-ties are
in good order. A track-walker's route
/ is usually about four miles, but is
even less on those stretches Of track
where special watchfulness is requir-
ed. To detect defects which might
appear on the under side of a rail
/ the company uses a special mirror.
| Bridges are as carefully looked after
as rails. The railroad mas AS divi-
sion bridge inspectors, VINO inspect
/ bridges monthly. The division engi-
neer, together with the master car
penter, must inspect them semi-an-
nually. and besides accompany the en-
gineers of maintenance of way on his
inspections. The division engineer
and the master carpenter now devote
about three weeks annually TO this
work. There is a further inspection
made by three men of practical and
theoretical experience. Moreover, the
Pennsylvania is rapidly replacing its
steel bridges with ones of stone and
concrete construction.
The latest and most improved sig
mails and interlocking plants are in
use-46S of the latter. OF all-steel
passenger equipment the road has as
much as all the other steam roads IL
the United States together. 1t has
4 1913 all-steel passenger cars and in
FIVE years will have nothing else on
its lines. The Pennsylvania was 9
pioneer in the use of steel cars. OF
its 167 ,2S3 freight cars, 66.676 are all
steel and 52,O97 steel underframes.
The pamphlet also tells of the safe
ty work in its shops. the safety in
spections. safety devices. the safety
committees appointed for extension
and supervision of safety work. Il
tells, also, Of what it is doing in the
. way of educating employees to pre-
b serve themselves from harm, of th'
exposition of safety devices and meas
ures It has held. II speaks Of hun