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Re: LION on Metro North Collision |
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Posted by Bill West on Sun Feb 8 04:37:49 2015, in response to Re: LION on Metro North Collision, posted by ElectricTraction on Sat Feb 7 22:41:26 2015. The 1900's NYC and NH elevation projects were to do with the complaints about the trains blocking the streets in the cities and with the limitations that coping with crossing traffic would put on adopting faster schedules. The unrecoverable damage and disruption costs may or may not have started as a concern at that time but by WWI they had risen to the point where the LIRR was running large campaigns against crossing violators. They also started to suffer from "sympathize with the victim" lawsuits. LIRR even tried using telephone poles as crossing gate arms. Read some of the era trade journals.At NYC's start the only passenger injury experience was with loco hauled trains where fatalities would be near nonexistent. Even with MU's coming I don't think anyone considered the passengers at risk from automobiles no bigger than a model T. I also don't recollect a history of significant passenger fatality incidents from crossing accidents in the Teens, Twenties or Thirties. Not even from the many third rail grade crossings on the various electric railroad and interurban operators across the country. Bill |
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