To Limit Length of Trains in Interstate Commerce: Hearings Before a Sub-committee...on S. 27 and S. 344...June 4 to 19, 1935 |
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66 Claim 70 cars accidents actual disability air brakes Air hose burst applied Arizona Augustine Lonergan bill Brakeman injured broken bruised car from engine cars in train casualties Chairman Chesapeake & Ohio Chicago Conductor injured contusion cupola Damage to equipment derailed Disabled 1 week division drawbar emergency application emergency stop employees end of caboose end of train FARQUHARSON Flagman fractured freight conductor freight extra freight train head end Interstate Commerce Commission Kans knocked locomotives long trains lost Louis-San Francisco Railway miles per hour Missouri Pacific Railroad Norfolk & Western number of cars Ohio Railway PARMELEE passenger trains Pennsylvania Railroad percent probable disability rail rear end ribs safety Santa Fe Senator LONERGAN Senator SHIPSTEAD shock shoulder slack action Southern Pacific Railroad speed of train sprained stop of train sudden stop thrown Topeka & Santa Train extra Train freight train-limit train-miles trainmen weeks 2 days west-bound yard
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Page 203 - Act, excluding (a) sleeping-car companies and express companies, (b) street or suburban electric railways unless operated as a part of a general steam railroad system of transportation, (c) interurban electric railways unless operated as a part of a general steam railroad system of transportation...
Page 124 - JUNE 6, 1935 UNITED STATES SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, at 10 : 30 am, pursuant to adjournment on yesterday, in room 412, Senate Office Building, Senator Augustine Lonergan presiding.