The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-08-28

ever. the train control was put on, and
now | would not feel safe in taking on,
an engine without it. I was right in my
lassumption-it is a third man on the
engine.
1T is an engineer that can look around
a corner, that can see in a fog. that can
! detect danger on a track, and no matter
how thick the storm. how much snow and
sleet. it is always right on the job. every
few miles clicking off the signal: All
right. Good boy! Go ahead, Here I an
looking out for YOU!
Control Works Perfectly In Worst
Kind of Weather.
The division engineer told me that his
company tried out this device with in
structions to him to find out its weak
points and discard it as soon as possible
if it did not show an efficiency of fully
! 20 rer cent. And so he went in to hunt
,out the weak points in the device. He
wanted to see whether the thing would
work in snow and ice and bad weather.
So he left the whole mechanism exposed
to storm and weather. There came a
storm Of ice and sleet so dense that II
covered the cab windows. and the en-
gineer was almost frozen to his seat.
The binding sleet and snow prevented the
I
| but as he ran on the train control kept
ticking of the signal, All right and he
knew the thing was working. And so
| the engine, equipped with the train con-
troll ran straight through that storm and
| kept schedule time
After the storm the division engineer
and his inspectors personally examined
the engine and found the train control in
perfect working order, and the ramps
! alnpU the track haf he FOL al
were likewise. . Any road that does
not use every known safety device is
| taking on itself a risk which no railroad
| official today can afford to shoulder"
Progressive Railroad Seeks to Prevent
All Accidents.
Great credit is due the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois management for adopting
! and installing this latest safety device
| on the busiest portion Of its double track
system. especially as the line was already
| equipped with automatic block signals.
With both systems in use passengers on
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois trains
are doubly protected against accidents.
Few roads in the country have taken
such extraordinary precautions.
Running from Chicago to Evansville. via
Danville. the Dixie Flyer. to Florida
! makes connection at Evansville with the
Louisville and Nashville. The Dixie Fly
err is one of the best-known high grade,
high-speed passenger trains between Chi
cago and Florida points. and is in serv-
ice the year round. Over this same divi-
sion is routed several other high-grade
through passenger trains between Chi
cago and Southern points, among them
the Dixie Limited" The New Orleans
Special" and the "Chicago-Nashville
Limited"
Trains to st. Louis out of Chicago run
over the double and the triple track sys-
TEN of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
to Woodland and thence over a single
track to Villa Grove where the road Is
again double tracked. Between Wood
land and Englewood. a suburb OF Chi
cago. there is an almost continuous line
of passenger trains following each other
every hour of the day and night. besides
a large number of freight trains, and
probably there is not another stretch of
railway tracks In the country accom-
modating a greater amount of traffic in
given length Of time than over this
busy portion of the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois Railroad. It becomes necessary.
therefore. for the management to take
every possible precaution against acci-
dents.
Paying just tribute to the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad. Mr.. Hubbard
said: There are thirty-four railroads
running into Chicago. l am told that
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois = the
warmest streak Of rust of the bunch.
This being Interpreted means that Il
runs more trains and has . bigger in
come. according to mileage. than any
other railroad that runs into Chicago
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois ranks
with the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie and
Buffalo. Rochester and Pittsburgh. IN
point Of excellence aud upkssp and divi-