Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1914 — Careless Engineers in Peril of Jail. [ARTICLE]

Careless Engineers in Peril of Jail.

In England, where the absolute block system is practically ufaiversal on railroads, engineers rarely run past a danger signal. Still, seme have been known to do it. As is well known, the engineer endangers hfs own life every time,he passes a stop signal, and he is well aware of what may be the consequences. The Engineering News remarks that what actually causes the engineer’s wrong act is “some slip of the attention or temporary failure of co-operation between the observing senses and the brain,” and adds that it Is now proposed to “apply a greater stimulant toward the prevention of such slips, or failures of co-ordination, by adding to the threat of death the further threat of jail.” In other words. It is proposed to make it a penal offense for an engineer to run past a tstop signal.