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The cause of automatic train control is no longer frowned upon nor easily dismissed by those charged with the responsibility of railway operation. The practical utility and the availa bility of means to put this thing into being have well been demonstrated. The fog is rising, and the imaginary difficulties that have so long stood in the way of progress have well-nigh vanished. The tune has changed from it can't be done to wherewith shall we get the money? That is not an unanswerable argument with American people - if it were, this question of automatic train control would never have come into exist ence, for, to begin with, we would never have had railroads.
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The cause of automatic train control is no longer frowned upon nor easily dismissed by those charged with the responsibility of railway operation. The practical utility and the availa bility of means to put this thing into being have well been demonstrated. The fog is rising, and the imaginary difficulties that have so long stood in the way of progress have well-nigh vanished. The tune has changed from it can't be done to wherewith shall we get the money? That is not an unanswerable argument with American people - if it were, this question of automatic train control would never have come into exist ence, for, to begin with, we would never have had railroads.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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For more than twenty years past it has been the editorial policy of the Railway Review to encourage the use of the automatic train stop, as a necessary supplement to the block-signal system. In this way it has fallen to the writer to study the possibilities of such a means of promoting the safety of train operation, and to follow the progress of the development of it. The ideas and facts comprised in this brief treatise are the result of frequent scrutiny of railroad accidents and the circumstances relating thereto; and essentially all of these have been expressed, in various connections, in the course of my editorial work. As here presented they are a digest of matter of my own authorship which has appeared in the Railway Review, but now rewritten and arranged in connected form.
Even this short account should not fail to pay tribute to the industry, the intelligence and the perseverance with which many worthy men have labored on this problem of the automatic control of trains. Encountering the disinterested attitude of many railway officials, in the early days, and not a little prejudice, they had a hard row to hoe.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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