Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1917 — Remarkable Record Has Been Made By Pennsylvania R. R. [ARTICLE]

Remarkable Record Has Been Made By Pennsylvania R. R.

In 1916 the Pennsylvania railroad system carried in its trains more people than in any previous year of its history, and did so without losing the life of a single passenger in a train accident of any kind. Statistics (which have just been compiled show that during the year there were transported on the line east and west of Pittsburgh, 196,294,146 passengers. The heaviest freight traffic ever handled by the road was moved over its lines at the. same time that these passengers were being carried without loss of life. The entire Pennsylvania system, taking into account every affiliated company, now has to its credit three full calendar years in which no passenger has been killed as a result of a train accident on any portion of the lines. During this period 553,890,063 passengers—equal to five and one-half times the population of the U. S.—have been safely transported a total distance of about fifteen billion miles. Upward of 9,000,000 trains, carrying both passengers and freight, were operated by day and night, through sleet and storm, and fog and sunshine, over 12,000 miles of railroad line and 27,000 miles of track.