Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1883 — A Great Railway Center. [ARTICLE]

A Great Railway Center.

At Clapham Junction, where the great railroad systems of London connect, the rails lie together like the wires of a piano. Sixteen hundred trains a day run over them. There is no shrieking of whistles or clanging of bells. They keep their signals for their officials, and outsiders must expose themselves at their own risks. A tunnel way for passengers connects the whole, so that no one is allowed to cross the rails except the employes, who grow foolhardy and now and then come to grief. On the average, one man is killed every six weeks.