Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioners of the State of MaineBurleigh & Flynt, printers to the state, 1893 - Railroads |
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A. W. WILDES amount issued Amount outstanding Auburn AUGUSTA Average number Bangor Biddeford Board of Railroad Boston bridges Bridgton Capital stock Cash realized CHADBOURNE Commissioners of Maine common carrier Conducting transportation construction cost to June crossing culverts CURRENT ASSETS CURRENT LIABILITIES D. N. MORTLAND Date of last earning revenue earnings from operation earnings per mile ending June 30 EQUIPMENT FITTED feet freight revenue FUNDED DEBT Grand total Grand Trunk Railway Gross earnings highway including general officers Income from operation Item June 30 Kingfield Lewiston locomotives Maine Central Railroad Maintenance of equipment mile of road Miles of line Miles run Monson Railroad MORTGAGE BONDS Mousam River Number of passengers Number of shares Number of tons operating expenses Passenger and freight Portland Post office address Railroad Commissioners Railroad Company RAILS RECAPITULATION River Railroad road named road-bed rolling stock Rumford Falls Saco River Total including Total number Total passenger earnings TRAIN MILEAGE TRESTLES
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Page 9 - An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their locomotives with driving-wheel brakes, and for other purposes...
Page 10 - ... to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the United States district attorney in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have been committed...
Page 170 - Total freight revenue Average amount received for each ton of freight Average receipts per ton per mile Total freight earnings. Freight earnings per mile of road Freight earnings per train mile: Train mileage not kept.
Page 9 - January, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic not equipped with couplers coupling automatically by impact, and which can be uncoupled without the necessity of men going between the ends of the cars.
Page 49 - Total passenger revenue Average amount received from each passenger Average receipts per passenger per mile Total passenger earnings Passenger earnings per mile of road...
Page 10 - Upon their determination being certified to the Interstate Commerce Commission, said Commission shall at once give notice of the standard fixed upon to all common carriers, owners, or lessees engaged in interstate commerce in the United States, by such means as the Commission may deem proper.
Page 170 - Freight traffic : Number of tons carried of freight earning revenue Number of tons carried one mile.
Page 9 - That from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, until otherwise ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission, it shall be unlawful for any railroad company to use any car in interstate commerce that is not provided with .secure grab irons or handholds in the ends and sides of each car .for greater security to men in coupling and uncoupling cars.
Page 9 - ... not equipped with a power driving-wheel brake and appliances for operating the train-brake system, or to run any train in such traffic after said date that has not a sufficient number of cars in it so equipped with power or train brakes that the engineer on the locomotive drawing such train can control its speed without requiring brakemen to use the common hand brake for that purpose.
Page 9 - ... not equipped sufficiently, in accordance with the first section of this act, with such power or train brakes as will work and readily interchange with the brakes in use on its own cars, as required by this act.