Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1917 — A WONDERFUL RECORD, INDEED [ARTICLE]

A WONDERFUL RECORD, INDEED

In 1916 the Pennsylvania railroad system carried in its trains more people than in any previous "year bf 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 safely on the lines east and west of Pittsburg 196,294,146 passengers. Figures for the last few weeks of the • £> year are necessarily partly estimated. The heaviest freight traffic ever handled by the Pennsylvania railroad system was moved over its lines at the same time that these passengers' were being carried without loss of life. The entire Pennsylvania railroad system/ taking into account every affiliated company either east or west of Pittsburg, now has : to its credit three full calendar years in which no passenger has been killed as a result of a train accident oh any portion of the lines. During this period 553,890,063 passengers — equal to five and one-half times the population bf the United States—have been safely transported a total distance of approximately 15,000,000,000 miles, or 150 times as far as the sun is from the earth. 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, while these passengers were being taken on their journeys without loss of life. On the lines of the Pennsylvania railroad, east of Pittsburg, no passenger’s life has been lost in a train accident during any of ‘the last four calendar years, and in that period 616,626,957 , people have traveled safely over these lines alone.