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Trains Magazine 1951 February Little Known Railroad Oahu Railway & Land Co State
Trains Magazine 1951 February Little Known Railroad
57 Pages
Cover photo. By Mike Runey.-1
Soo Line train No. 8 near Rapid
Railroad news and editorial comment. By W. V. Anderson.6
From Nowhere to No Place. A photo story.-13
When the Oahu Railway & Land Company ceased operations, a group of Hawaiian rail enthusiasts took over a portion and called it the Hibiscus & Heliconia Short Line.
"Take 'er out, Luther." By Thomas C. Shedd Jr.--16
Hop into an A.A.R. detector car and watch the crew spot bad rails.
Little-known railroad. By Stephen Bogart.-20
The Staten Island Rapid Transit, controlled by Baltimore & Ohio, speeds commuters to and from work in Gotham's "forgotten borough."
Photo section. Steam, diesel and electric railroading.27
Santa Fe in the Tehachapi Mountains, 27; Stockton Terminal & Eastern, 28; New York, Susquehanna & Western, 29; Western Maryland time freight, 30-31; Missouri Pacific, 32; T&P and ivaty at Dallas, 33; Virginian electric, 33; Huntington & Broad Top Mountain, 34; Illinois Central engine terminal, 34; T&P Pacific on Sunshine Special, 35; Kansas City Southern diesel freight, 35.
Railroading without precedent. By David P. Morgan.36
Associate editor, now on active duty with the Air Force, takes time out to review "Centennial History of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company."
Only a station sign. Reminiscences of Alray on the Santa Fe.41
Riding through historyland. By Roy G. Clark.--43
A daytime ride on NC&StL's Dixie Flyer from Nashville to Atlanta.
Scrapped. A photo story.47
What happens to steam locomotives when they leave the dead storage tracks.
What's wrong on the Long Island?
When a railroad with a long record of no fatalities to passengers suddenly becomes the subject of headlines throughout the country because of two serious accidents in less than a year, what is wrong? Is there something seriously bad-order with the -railroad's management or its employees or its safety devices, or is it merely the law of averages catching up in a hurry?
The Long Island Rail Road did not have a single passenger fatality between 1926 and the beginning of 1950, and in that time it carried more than two billion passengers. Its safety record was perfect so far as passengers were Concerned. In fact, even employees were immune from fatal accidents between 1926 and 1948. In 1949, however, 20 employees lost their lives in LIRR accidents.
Then, in February 1950, a head-on collision caused the death of 32 passengers. In November, 77 were killed when one train overtook another.
Maybe it's just a quick adjustment of the law of averages. But maybe, too, Railway Age revealed the underlying cause of the accidents in its editorial "What Is Wrong on the Long Island?":
"This paper will not prejudge the circumstances which occasioned the disastrous collision on the Long Island Railroad on November 22, in advance of the conclusions of the inquiry being conducted by the Interstate Commerce Com
mission under the experienced leadership of Commissioner W. J. Patterson. Available evidence suggests, however, that the train which ran into the rear of the train ahead had come to a stop, at a signal which should have indicated 'stop and proceed,' approximately
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