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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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That folding fenders be placed on a city car in Elwood toprevent boys from riding on the fenders as they do on thepresent fenders. That the company have new posters printed with severalsuggestions pertaining to safety of shop men or other em-ployees working in or about cars and engine rooms, thegeneral safety board to decide what suggestions would bebest for such posters. That oil boxes, bull-rope boxes and trolley pickups besealed, and that one man be appointed at the shops toreplace material when the seals are broken. That double whistle signals be sounded at all obscurecountry crossings. That, as passengers open the rear outside doors of pay-as-you-enter cars while conductors are flagging railroads orthrowing block lights, signs be placed on the doors, readingPassengers must not open these doors. That something be done to keep children from playingon bridge abutments. That compulsory stops be established at certain desig-nated points, to be made by all cars before crossing streets.
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1 - W»m. Ml I ^ „;■,;,■„„,. , REAR END OF CAR WITH GRAB RAIL; SCALING LADDER ANDHANDLES IN SIDE OF CAR NEW STAFF BRAKES ON INTERURBAN CARS; NEW EMERGENCYREVERSE That as the gong on Car No. 26 does not ring loud enoughfor safety a louder gong should be installed. That the company provide posts or a fence between CowanStation and the bridge just south of the station, in order toprevent rigs backing into the ditch and upsetting. That the line car carry poles on the side opposite traffic,when on double track. That when a chemical fire extinguisher has been used, itshould be turned in at the first shop reached; also that crewsbe instructed by bulletin on bulletin boards that a charge isuseless after a part of it has been used. That crews keep fuse boxes cleaned of papers and lamps,as there should be nothing in boxes but what is marked onthem. That high tension at Lafontaine substation be fencedoff. That the dirt piled by the Big Four Railroad on theCemetery Line near the railroa

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