Kind of train brake in use on your road: Automatic Air Brake. Number of locomotives equipped with train brakes: 8. Number of cars equipped with train brakes: 14. Number of miles of steel rail: 19. Number of miles of steel rail laid since October 1st, 1879: 8. Number of miles of fencing: Not ascertained. Cost of fencing: Estimated cost of fencing entire road: $143,000. Number of bridges: Iron, none: wooden, 4; combination, 2. Number of bridges built since October 1st, 1879: Iron,; wooden, ; combination, Aggregate length of bridges: Iron, combination, 2,165. Number of trestles: 36. Aggregate length of trestles: 7,944 feet. ; wooden, 1,435 feet; What signal is given when crossing highway: two long and two short Number of crossings of highway: ; at grade: ; under: 4; over, 4. Number of crossings of highway without sign: Gauge: 5 feet. Carrying capacity of freight cars: 20,000 pounds; 1,235 cubic feet. Total Through....... passenger mileage, or number carried one mile....................... Average amount received for each, $2.35. Average amount per mile for each, Freight-Tons carried, local...... Total...... Through.. 66,541 10,015 76,556 .64,214.49 ..67,083.34 .131,297.83 Local freight mileage or number of tons local freight carried one mile, 2,861,576. Through freight mileage or number of tons through freight carried one mile, 7,394,529. Total freight mileage or tons carried one mile, 10,256,105. Average amount received for each ton local freight, $3.21. Average amount received for each ton through freight, $2.12. Average amount received for each ton through and local freight, $2.73. Average rate per ton per mile local freight, $0.072. Average rate per ton per mile through freight, $0.019. Charge for loading and unloading freight trains, Failure of passenger trains to meet schedule time at junctions and NUMBER OF ACCIDENT. ACCIDENTS Below tabular statement give the cause and circumstances of each accident, with the finding of jury of inquest; also a detailed account of all train accidents. 1 Not known.... Feb. 10, 1888..... Trenton. 2 H. Y. Young..... Feb. 10, 1880..... Sugar Creek 3 McGinn.. Feb. 21, 1880.. 4 Irail Cook.. June, 1880... 5 Jno. Howell...... July 2, 1880. 6 Geo. Archy. July 19, 1880.. Chester. 7 Geo. S. Gaither.. July 23, 1880..... Rock Hill.. Totals... FROM CAUSES BE YOND THEIR CONTROL. OR WANT OF CAU BY OWN MISCONDUCT TION. YOND THEIR CON FROM CAUSES BE TROL. BY OWN MISCONDUCT OR WANT OF CAU TION. FROM CAUSES BEYOND THEIR CON TROL. KILLED. BY OWN MISCONDUCT OR WANT OF CAU TION. FROM CAUSES BEYOND THEIR CON TROL. OR WANT OF CAU BY OWN MISCONDUCT TION. Total-Killed, 3; injured, 4. No. 1. Passenger; drunk; foot mashed. No. 2. Knocked off top of freight while going through a bridge in North Carolina. No. 3. Passenger trying to jump on moving train; got leg mashed. He admitted it to be his own fault, and disclaimed right of action against the road. Expenses and doctor's bill paid. No. 4. Slight injury-hand mashed. No. 5. Material train hand in attempting to get on train in motion fell down and was run over. No. 6. Train hand fell between wood-rack and tender; slightly injured. No. 7. By lying asleep on track at a bend of the road was run over by passenger train. Small payment made, and all right of action disclaimed. |