Notes on Railroad Accidents
by Charles Francis Adams
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About this eBook
- Author
- Adams, Charles Francis, 1835-1915
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications
- Subject
- Railroad accidents
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 48693
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48693
- Release Date
- April 12, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.NOTES ON RAILROAD ACCIDENTS
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.PREFACE.
- 4.CHAPTER I. — THE DEATH OF MR. HUSKISSON.
- 5.CHAPTER II. — THE ANGOLA AND SHIPTON ACCIDENTS.
- 6.CHAPTER III. — THE WOLLASTON ACCIDENT.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. — ACCIDENTS AND CONSERVATISM.
- 8.CHAPTER V. — TELESCOPING AND THE MILLER PLATFORM.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. — THE VERSAILLES ACCIDENT.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. — TELEGRAPHIC COLLISIONS.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. — OIL-TANK ACCIDENTS.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. — DRAW-BRIDGE DISASTERS.
- 13.CHAPTER X. — THE NORWALK ACCIDENT.
- 14.CHAPTER XI. — BRIDGE ACCIDENTS.
- 15.CHAPTER XII. — THE PROTECTION OF BRIDGES.
- 16.CHAPTER XIII. — CAR-COUPLINGS IN DERAILMENTS.
- 17.CHAPTER XIV. — THE REVERE CATASTROPHE.
- 18.CHAPTER XV. — REAR END COLLISIONS.
- 19.CHAPTER XVI. — NOVEL APPLIANCES.
- 20.CHAPTER XVII. — THE AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC BLOCK SYSTEM.
- 21.CHAPTER XVIII. — INTERLOCKING.
- 22.CHAPTER XIX. — THE WESTINGHOUSE BRAKE.
- 23.CHAPTER XX. — THE BATTLE OF THE BRAKES.
- 24.CHAPTER XXI. — THE RAILROAD JOURNEY RESULTING IN DEATH.
- 25.CHAPTER XXII. — THE RAILROAD DEATH RATE.
- 26.CHAPTER XXIII. — AMERICAN AS COMPARED WITH FOREIGN RAILROAD ACCIDENTS.
- 27.INDEX. — FOOTNOTES: — Transcriber's note:
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