Identifier: electricrailway571921newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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her of these employeesconsulted the time table before proceedingnorthward from Marley, for they wouldhave seen that the train scheduled to leaveBaltimore at 2:50 p.m. was operated daily. At the time of the accident the crewof train No. 339 had been on duty alittle more than ten hours, after aboutHi hours off duty. The crew of workextra No. 7 had been on duty about8J hours, previous to which the mem-bers had been off duty twenty-onehours or more. $1,000,000 for Storage Yardat Boston The Boston (Mass.) Elevated Rail-way is constructing an elevated trainstorage yard at Forest Hills, the south-ern terminus of the main trunk lineelevated road. The present stub-enddouble-track line, which ends about atrain length beyond the Forest HillsTerminal Station, is being extendedacross the junction of Washington andWalk Hill streets, onto private landpurchased by the company. Here thestructure will branch out into one fourtrack section and one three tracksection. Only the three track section will be
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TWO TRAINS OF THE WASHINGTON, BALTIMORE & ANNAPOLIS LINECOLLIDED AT FERNDALE ON MAY 5 The line on which the accident oc-curred, at present extending betweenShort Line Junction and Annapolis, wastaken over by the Washington, Balti-more & Annapolis Electric Railroad onMarch 16, 1921, and a contract wasmade six days previous thereto for theinstallation of an automatic block sig-nal system between the two points. Theopinion of the commission is that hadsuch a system been in use at the timeof the accident, the collision undoubt-edly would have been prevented. Conductor Johnson was employed asa brakeman in 1918, promoted to extramotorman and extra conductor in Janu-ary, 1919, and to freight conductor inApril, 1919. On Sept. 20,1919, he failedto observe an order and ran by a meet-ing point. Motorman Dyson was trans-ferred from the shop department tothe transportation department in March,1914, and assigned to service as anextra motorman and inspector. Hisrecord is clear. built at the

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