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INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION


WASHINGTON


INVESTIGATION NO. 2988


CHICAGO, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD COMPANY REPORT IN RE ACCIDENT AT 
NAPERVILLE, ILL., ON APRIL 26, 1946


Inv-2988


SUMMARY


Railroad:                                                Chicago, Burlington & 
Quincy


Date:                                                       April 25, 1946


Location:                                               Naperville, Ill.


Kind of accident:                                  Rear-end collision


Trains involved:                                   Passenger:                   
                   Passenger


Train numbers:                                     11:                          
                          39


Engine numbers:                                  Diesel-electric units 9920 A 
and 9920 B:                           Diesel-electric units 9910 A and 9910 B


Consist:                                                 13 cars:               
                             9 cars


Estimated speed:                                  Standing:                     
                   45 m.p.h.


Operation:                                             Signal indications


Tracks:                                                   Three; tangent; 0.24 
percent descending grade westward


Weather:                                                Clear


Time:                                                      1:05 p.m.


Casualties:                                             45 killed; 69 injured


Cause:                                                    Failure to operate 
following train in accordance with signal indications


Recommendation:                                That the Chicago, Burlington & 
Quincy Railroad Company        discontinue the operation of passenger train 
cars which do not                                                               
  meet present standards, intermingled in trains with cars meeting              
 such standards


                                                                Consideration 
of method for controlling speed deferred pending disposition of Docket No. 29543


INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION


INVESTIGATION NO. 2988


IN THE MATTER OF MAKING ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION REPOTS UNDER THE ACCIDENT 
REPORTS ACT CF MAY 6, 1910.


CHICAGO BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD COMPANY


July 30, 1946.


Accident at Naperville, Ill., on April 25, 1946, caused by failure to operate 
the following train in accordance with signal indications.


REPORT OF THE COMMISSION 1


PATTERSON, Commissioner:


On April 25, 1946, there were a rear-end collision between two passenger trains 
on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad at Naperville, Ill., which 
resulted in the death of 39 passengers, 4 dinning-car employees, 1 employee off 
duty and 1 train-service employee, and the injury of 48 passengers, 1 porter, 
19 dining-car employees and 1 train service employee. This accident was 
investigated in conjunction with representatives of the Illinois Commerce 
Commission.


Diagram 


Inv. No. 2988 Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Naperville, Ill. April 25, 
1946.


Location of Accident and Method of Operation


This accident occurred on that part, of the Chicago Division extending between 
Roosevelt Road, Chicago, and Eola, Ill., 32 57 miles, a three-track line in the 
vicinity of the point of accident. The main tracks are designated from north to 
south as Nos. 1, 2 and 3. Trains moving in either direction on tracks Nos. 1 
and 2 and east-bound trains moving on track No. 3 are operated by signal 
indications. The accident occurred on track No. 2 at a point 1,097 feet east of 
the station at Naperville, 26.94 miles west of Roosevelt Road. From the east 
there are, in succession, a tangent 4,732 feet in length, a compound curve to 
the right 4,160 feet, the maximum curvature of which is 0 degree 49.12', and a 
tangent 1,850 feet to the point of accident and 4.20 miles westward. The grade 
for west-bound trains on track No. 2 varies between 0.014 and 0.10 percent 
descending 3,400 feet, practically level 1,900 feet, 0.60 percent ascending 
about 1,800 feet, then it varies between 0.11 and 0.27 percent descending 1,813 
feet to the point of accident, where it is

0.24 percent.


Automatic signals 227.1 and 228.1, governing west-bound movements on track No. 
2, are mounted on signal bridges located, respectively, 6,581 feet and 934 feet 
east of the point of accident. These signals are of the three-indication, 
color-light type, and are continuously lighted. The yellow aspect of signal 227 
1 is 27 41 feet above the level of the tops of the rails and 3.53 feet north of 
the center-line of track No. 2. The red aspect of signal 228.1 is 21.89 feet 
above the level of the tops of the rails and 6.5 feet north of the center-line 
of track No. 2. The involved aspects and corresponding indications and names of 
these signals are as follows:


Signal                                                     Aspect               
                            Indication                      Name


227.1                                                       Yellow              
                              APPROACH NEXT SIGNAL     Approach-Signal

                                                                PREPARED TO STOP


228.1                                                       Red                 
                                STOP; THEN PROCEED             Stop and Proceed 
Signal


The controlling circuits of these signals are so arranged that, when a train is 
occupying track No. 2 in the block between signal 228.1 and the next signal 
westward, signal 227.1 displays approach-next-signal-prepared-to-stop, and 
signal 228.1 displays stop-then-proceed.


Operating rules read in part as follows:


DEFINITIONS


* * *


Restricted Speed. --Proceed prepared to stop snort of train, obstruction, or 
anything that may require the speed of a train to be reduced.


11.                                                           A train finding a 
fusee burning op or near its track must stop and extinguish the fusee, and then 
proceed at restricted speed.


14.                                                           ENGINE WHISTLE 
SIGNALS.


Note. --The signals prescribed are illustrated by "o" for short sounds; "--" 
for loaner sounds.

* * *


                                                                SOUND.          
                               INDICATION.


* * *


(c) ----- o o o                                          Flagman protect rear 
of train.


* * *


35.                                                           The following 
signals will be used by flagmen:


Day signals-A red flag, Torpedoes and Fusees.


* * *


99.                                                           When a train 
stops under circumstances in which it may be overtaken by another train, the 
flagman must go back immediately with flagman's signals a sufficient distance 
to insure full protection, placing two torpedoes, and when necessary, in 
addition, displaying lighted fusses.


* * *


When a train is moving under circumstances in which it may be overtaken by 
another train, the flagman must take such action as may be necessary to insure 
full protection. 3 night, or by day when the view is obscured, lighted fusees 
must be thrown off at proper intervals.


* * *


509.                                                         ***


* * *


When a train is stopped by a Stop and Proceed-signal it may proceed-


* * *


(B)                                                           On two or more 
tracks at once at restricted speed, expecting to find a train in the block, 
broken rail, obstruction or switch not properly lined.


Time-table special instructions read in part as follows:


1.                                                             When a distant 
signal is displaying a restricting indication, trains must reduce speed at once 
and move at "restricted speed" until the indication of the next governing 
signal can be determined.



37.                                                           * * *


* * *


EMERGENCY RED REAR END LIGHTS. Trainmen on trains equipped with oscillating 
emergency red rear end lights must familiarize themselves with the location of 
the switches which control the lights and will be governed by the following.


* * *


To provide supplemental protection under Rule 99 in all circumstances where its 
use is necessary to stop following trains on one or more tracks.


* * *


The use of this emergency red light does not in any way relieve the flagman 
from flagman from full compliance with Rules 99. * * *.


* * *


The maximum authorized speed for the passenger trains involved was 80 miles per 
hour.


Description of Accident


No. 11, a west-bound first-class passenger train, consisted of Diesel-electric 
units 9920 A and 9920 B, one baggage car, one storage-mail car, two baggage 
cars, one mail car, one refrigerator-express car, two baggage cars, two 
coaches, one dining car, one parlor-lounge car and one, coach, in the order 
named. The sixth car was of steel-underframe construction, the ninth to 
eleventh-cars, inclusive, were of lightweight stainless-steel construction, and 
the remainder of the cars were of conventional all-steel construction. This 
train departed from Chicago Union Station, 28.44 miles east of Naperville, at 
12:35 p.m., on time, and, moving on track No. 2, passed Downer's Grove, the 
last open office, 7.32 miles east of Naperville, at 12:57 p.m., 1 minute late. 
Soon afterward, some object was seen flying front beneath one of the cars and 
the train was stopped at Naperville for inspection at 1:03 p.m., with the rear 
end standing 1,097 feet east of the station. About 2 minutes later the rear end 
was struck by No. 39.


No. 39, a west-bound first-class passenger train, consisted of Diesel-electric 
units 9910 A and 9910 B, coupled in multiple control, three coaches, one dining 
car, two tourist sleeping cars and three Pullman sleeping cars, in the order 
named. All cars were of steel construction. This train departed from Chicago 
Union Station at 12:35 p.m., on time, and moved on track No. 1 to Kedzie 
Avenue, 23.59 miles east of Naperville, then entered track No. 2, passed 
Downer's Grove at 1 p.m., 2 minutes late, passed signal 227.1, which displayed 
approach-next-signal-prepared-to-stop, passed signal 228.1, which displayed 
stop-then-proceed, passed the flagman of No. 11, and while moving at an 
estimated speed of not less than 45 miles per hour it collided with No. 11 at a 
point 934 feet west of signal 228.1.


The ninth car of No. 11 was derailed and leaned to the south at an angle of 15 
degrees, but remained in line with track No. 2. The center-sill was twisted and 
the roof sheets and the end sheets were somewhat damaged. The tenth car stopped 
on its left side south of track No. 2 and at an angle of 15 degrees to it. Both 
ends were buckled, the center-sill and cross members were bent, both draft 
gears were broken and both trucks were damaged. The eleventh car was turned 
around, bent into an U-shape, stopped north of the tenth car and against it, 
and was demolished about three-fourths of its length. The knuckle of the front 
coupler and the shank of the rear coupler were broken. The twelfth car was 
derailed across track No. 1 and stopped with its front end about 10 feet west 
of the tenth cur and leaned to the north at an angle of 25 degrees. Both draft 
gears were broken, and both trucks were badly damaged. The front unit of engine 
9910 entered the rear car of No. 11 above the floor-line and demolished the 
superstructure of this car about three-fourths its length. This car remained 
upright on track No. 2, and at the rear of the eleventh and twelfth cars The 
center-sill at the rear end was bent downward about 18 inches; the bend 
extended to the rear bolster. Both units of Diesel-electric engine 9910, of No. 
39, were derailed but remained upright and in line with track No. 2. The front 
unit of this engine stopped inside the rear car No. 11 at a point 205 feet west 
of the point of collision. The front truck was torn off and stopped 18 feet 
west of the point of collision. The frames, the trucks, and the electrical and 
air equipment of both units were badly damaged. The first to fourth cars, 
inclusive, and the rear truck of the fifth car of No. 39 were derailed. This 
equipment remained, upright and in line with track No. 2. The rear end of the 
second car telescoped the front end of the third car about 6 feet. The derailed 
cars of No. 39 were damaged, but not extensively.


The weather was clear at the time of the accident, which occurred about 1:05 
p.m.


The fireman of No. 39, who jumped from the engine just before the collision 
occurred, was killed. The engineer of No. 39 was injured.


According to data furnished by the railroad, the weight of the equipment of No, 
39 was 1,043.04 tons. The ninth to eleventh cars, inclusive, of No. 11 were of 
lightweight stainless-steel construction. The twelfth and thirteenth cars of 
No. 11 were of conventional all-steel, plate, girder, post and sill 
construction. The ninth and tenth cars were built in 1940, the eleventh car, in 
1938, and the twelfth and thirteenth cars, in 1918.


Diesel-electric engine 9910 is provided with M-40-A brake equipment. A 
safety-control feature is so arranged that when there is no pressure exerted or 
either the foot pedal or the automatic brake-valve handle, the train brakes 
will be applied in emergency, unless a brake application of 30 pounds 
brake-cylinder pressure has been made. To apply the train-brake system in 
emergency by manual operation, the brake-valve handle must be moved to the 
extreme right of the brake-valve quadrant. The equipment is so arranged that 
during an emergency application of the brakes sand is automatically deposited 
upon the rails. The regulating devices were adjusted for brake-pipe pressure of 
110 pounds and main-reservoir pressure of 140 pounds. Of the cars of No. 39, 
four were equipped with UC-12-3 control valves, and five with LN-3 control 
valves. Both units of the Diesel-electric engine and 6 cars were equipped with 
clasp brakes, and the other cars were equipped with one brake shoe per wheel.


After the accident, tests of the air-brake equipment of No. 39 disclosed that 
the automatic brake valve and all control valves of the units involved 
functioned as intended, both in service and in emergency applications. The 
brake-cylinder piston travel of the nine cars varied between 6-1/2 and 9-1/4 
inches. The piston travel of one car only was in excess of 9 inches.


A few days after the accident a series of braking tests was conducted with a 
train comparable in weight, braking ratios, and consist to that of No. 39 on 
the day of the accident. During one test a speed of 81 miles per hour was 
attained and a 30-pound brake-pipe reduction, which was initiated at signal 
227.1, stopped the train at a point 33 feet east of signal 228.1. During the 
next test, a speed of 85 miles per hour was attained and a 30-pound brake-pipe 
reduction, which was initiated at signal 227.1, stopped the train at a point 33 
feet east of signal 228.1. During another test, an emergency application made 
at a point 2.202 feet east of signal can be obtained, stopped the train from a 
speed of 86 miles per hour in a distance of 3,529 feet, at a point 1,327 feet 
west of signal 228.1 and 393 feet west of the point of accident.


Discussion


As No. 11 approaching Naperville, the speed was about 80 miles per hour. The 
front brakeman, who was making a running inspection of his train from the right 
rear vestibule of the tenth car, saw an unidentified object fly from under the 
train, and soon afterward sounded the communicating system signal to stop. The 
train was stopped 1-1/2 miles westward about 1:03 p.m., in the vicinity of the 
station at Naperville, with the rear end standing 1,850 feet west of the west 
end of a 0 degree 49.12'-curve to the right and 934 feet west of automatic 
signal 228.1. About 2 minutes later the rear end of No. 11 was struck by No. 
39. At this time the train brakes of No. 11 were released; but the brakes on 
both Diesel-units were applied.


As No. 11 was approaching Naperville the flagman was stationed in the front end 
of the twelfth car, so that he could inspect his train as it moved on the curve 
to the right. His flagging equipment was on the rear platform of the rear or 
thirteenth car. When the flagman felt the application of the brakes as his 
train was preparing to stop at Naperville he proceeded to the rear end of the 
train and, after No. 11 stopped, he proceeded to the rear to provide flag 
protection. He had reached a point about 300 feet to the rear of his train and 
was giving stop signals with a red flag ten the engine of No. 39 passed him. He 
said that he was unable to make an inspection of his train from any point to 
the rear of the front end of the twelfth car, because of the type of equipment 
involved. It had been his experience that fusees dropped from a train moving at 
high speed would not remain lighted, and for this reason he said it had not 
been his practice to drop lighted fusees from a moving train. In tests after 
the accident, lighted 10-minute fusees were dropped from the rear Platform of a 
train moving on track No. 2. At speeds in excess of 40 miles per hour, fusees 
either bounced off track No. 2 or failed to burn. Burning fusees remained on 
track No. when dropped at speeds of 40 miles per hour and lower and continued 
to burn. The engineer of No. 11 said that he did not sound the engine-whistle 
signal for the flagman to protect the rear of the train until his train had 
stopped. The flagman proceeded to the rear immediately to provide flag 
protection. He did not operate the switch to light the oscillating red light 
which was provided at the rear of the train for giving additional waning. This 
device was therefore not operating. The sun was shining and, because of the 
curvature of track to the rear of No. 11, there is some question whether the 
engineer of No. 39 could have seen the oscillating red light, had it been 
lighted, in time to take action to stop his train short of the preceding train.


As No. 39 was approaching Naperville, the speed was about 80 miles per hour. 
Both enginemen were in the control compartment at the front end of the first 
Diesel-electric unit, and the members of the train crew were in various 
locations throughout the cars of the train, the engineer was seriously injured 
in the accident and he was unable to make a statement before this investigation 
was completed. The fireman jumped from the control compartment of the first 
Diesel-electric unit just before the, impact occurred, end he was killed. 
Members of the train crew were not aware that anything was wrong until the 
collision occurred. Several members of the train crew said they felt a light 
service application of the brakes about midway between signals 227.1 and 228.1. 
Those employees thought the speed was about 45 miles per hour at the time of 
the collision. The brakes of this train had been tested and had functioned 
properly en route. In tests of the brake equipment of this train after the 
accident, the brakes functioned properly in both service and emergency 
applications and the brake-cylinder piston travel was in conformity with the 
requirements. The automatic sanding feature of the Diesel-electric units 
functioned during emergency application of the brakes after the accident.


Signal 227.1 displayed approach for No 39. Under the rules this indication 
required the train to "approach next signal prepared to stop." On most 
railroads the indication for an approach signal is "Proceed preparing to stop 
at next signal. Train exceeding medium speed must at once reduce to that 
speed." This latter indication establishes a definite minimum requirement which 
is essential to safe operation and which if it had been followed in this case 
would have prevented this accident. On the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 
Railroad the approach indication is supplemented by a time-table instruction 
which provides that when a distant signal is displaying a restricting 
indication, trains must reduce seed at once and move at restricted speed until 
the indication of the next governing signal can be determined. Under this 
instruction, as soon as the approach aspect of signal 227.1 came into view the 
speed of No. 39 should have been reduced at once, and the train should have 
proceeded prepared to stop short of train, obstruction or anything that the 
restricted speed indication was protecting. Had the signal been observed and 
this instruction complied with, this accident would have been prevented. Signal 
228.1 displayed stop-then-proceed, which indication required that the train 
must be stooped and then operated beyond this signal in such manner that it 
could be stooped short of a preceding train. The weather was clear and there 
was no condition which obscured the view of the aspects displayed by signals 
227.1 and 228.1. Signal 227.1 could be seen from the control compartment of No. 
39 throughout a distance of not less than 5,000 feet. In tests after the 
accident signals 227.1 and 228.1 functioned properly. Examination of 
Diesel-electric engine 9910 after the accident disclosed that the automatic 
brake valve was in service position. There was no indication that an emergency 
application of the brakes had been made. The members of the train crew of No. 
39 said that they did not feel any brake application in the vicinity of 
aperville until their train was midway between signals 227.1 and 228.1. A 
series of braking tests was conducted after the accident, with a train of 
similar weight and brake system to No. 39 on the day of the accident. As a 
result of 30-pound service brake-pipe reductions made at signal 227.1, the test 
train stopped from speeds of 80 and 85 miles per hour short of signal 228.1. 
Since it was not possible to question the engineer of No. 39 during this 
investigation, it is not known why action was not taken by him to operate No. 
39 in accordance with the indications displayed by the signals involved


According to the timetable in effect at the time of the accident, the scheduled 
leaving time from Chicago Union Station for Nos. 11 and 39 was 12:35 p.m. The 
leaving time for No. 11 from Downer's Grove, 7.32 miles east of Naperville, was 
12:56 p.m., and for No. 39, 12:58 p.m. This was close headway. In the operation 
of trains under such headway engineers should be especially alert at all times. 
In a new timetable, effective May 26, 1946, the scheduled leaving time from 
Chicago Union Station for No. 11 is 12:30 p.m., and for No. 39, 12:45 p.m., 
which provides at all times. In a new timetable, effective May 26, 1946, the 
scheduled leaving time from Chicago Union Station for No. 11 is 12:30 p.m., and 
for No. 39, 12:45 p.m., which provides a time interval of 15 minutes. However, 
increased of the time interval between these schedules will riot necessarily 
prevent similar accidents, because trains scheduled 15 or more minutes apart at 
their initial terminal can close up until a situation develops similar to the 
one involved in the accident here under investigation. If an adequate automatic 
train-stop or train-control system had been in use end functioning properly, 
the speed of No. 39 would have been controlled in accordance with the 
conditions of track occupancy ahead, regardless of any inaction on the part of 
the engineer, and this accident would have been averted. If a cab-signal system 
had been in use and functioning properly, an audible warning signal would have 
been sounded, and signal aspects indicating the presence of the train ahead 
would have been displayed continuously in the cab in the view of both the 
engineer and the fireman, and this accident might have been averted.


There is now pending before the Commission docket No. 29543, which is an 
investigation instituted May 20, 1946, on its own motion, to determine whether 
it is necessary, in the public interest, to require any common carrier by 
railroad to install block signal system, interlocking, automatic train stop, 
train control and/or cab signal devices, and/or other similar appliances, 
methods and systems intended to promote the safety of railroad operation, upon 
the whole or any part of its railroad on which any train is operated at a speed 
of 50 or more miles per hour. Hearing therein will be held in the near future.


The thirteenth or rear car of No. 11 was of conventional all-steel 
construction, and weighed 10,300 pounds. As a result of direct shock in the 
collision, the center-sills were bent downward about 18 inches at the rear end, 
and the bend extended to the rear bolster. The first unit of the locomotive of 
No. 39 was deflected upward; it entered the rear car above the floor level, and 
the superstructure was destroyed about three-fourths the length of the car. As 
a result of the upward deflection of the first unit of the locomotive, the 
buffing members of the rear car did not receive the full force of thc 
collision. A considerable amount of the force was dissipated in the twelfth, 
eleventh, tenth and ninth cars. The greatest damage and practically all the 
deaths occurred in the thirteenth and eleventh cars. The twelfth car was of 
conventions all-steel construction, and weighed 169,800 pounds. It was not 
damaged extensively. The eleventh, tenth and ninth cars were of lightweight 
construction; and weighed, respectively, 115,800, 112,950, and 110,700 pounds. 
The eighth and seventh cars were of conventional all-steel construction, and 
weighed, respectively, 139,700 and 141,800 pounds. The eleventh car stopped in 
reverse direction. It was bent in an U-shape. The section between the body 
bolsters was demolished, and the sections between the body bolsters and the 
ends were considerably damaged. The eleventh, tenth and ninth cars were 
equipped with tightlock couplers.


Examination of the extent of damage to each of the rear five cars of No. 11 
directs attention to the comparative capacities of these cars to withstand 
heavy buffing stresses. Specifications for end-to-end buffing stresses for 
passenger-train cars were first promulgated In 1912 for railway post office 
cars. These specifications required that such cars must be constructed so as to 
resist buffing stress of not less than 800,000 pounds, and this requirement has 
not been changed. In 1939, the Association of American Railroads recommended to 
its members certain specifications, based on the existing Railway Mail Service 
specifications, for the construction of passenger cars used in trains of more 
than 600,000 pounds light weight. Those specifications, made standard by the 
Association of American Railroads in 1945, require that the car structure 
resist minimum static end load of 800,000 pounds applied on center line of 
draft without developing any permanent deformation in any member of the car 
structure. The eleventh car was a dining car built in 1938, and was of 
stainless steel construction. The center-sill of this car was of stainless 
steel, with a cross-sectional area of 8.38 square inches. This is insufficient 
to meet the specifications recommended by the Association of American Railroads 
in 1939 and made standard by it in 1945. In recent years similar cars have boon 
constructed with stainless steel center-sills having a cross-sectional area of 
18 square inches. The cross-sectional areas of the center-sills of the tenth 
and ninth cars were about 40 percent greater than that of the eleventh car. 
Several railroads have in use a total of about 105 cars of the same 
specifications as the eleventh car in No. 11, and about 20 of these are in use 
by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad.


In 1938 the Commission investigated a head-end collision between two passenger 
trains in which there were cars of similar specifications to that of the 
dinning car of No. 11. In that accident as well as the present one, the first 
car of such specifications in the line of travel of the force of collision 
received far greater damage than the adjoining cars which were of heavier 
construction. In both cases there were cars of heavier construction beyond the 
cars in question, and they received only minor damage.


The following recommendation was made in the Commission's report covering 
investigation of this 198 accident:


It is recommended that railroad officials give serious consideration to 
discontinuance of operation, of so-called lightweight cars between or ahead of 
standard, cars unless and until the strength of construction has been 
determined by suitable tests to be substantially the same as that of other cars 
with which they are associated.


Notwithstanding this recommendation, and also the subsequent action of the 
Association of American Railroads establishing a minimum requirement of 
resistance to end buffing stresses for cars in unrestricted service, cars which 
do not conform to this standard are continued in operation in association with 
cars of substantially heavier construction and which meet this minimum 
requirement. The number of casualties which resulted in this case may have been 
attributable in part to this condition. Only the three lightweight cars were 
equipped with tightlock couplers. Had all the cars involved been equipped with 
tightlock couplers, and had all cars conformed to the standard for end buffing 
resistance, it is probable that the disastrous consequences of this accident 
would have been greatly reduced.


Cause


It is found that this accident was caused by failure to operate the following 
train in accordance with signal indications.


Recommendation


It is recommended that the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company 
discontinue the operation of passenger-train cars which do not meet present 
standards, intermingled in trains with cars meeting such standards.


No recommendation is made at this time with respect to the method of 
controlling the speed of these fast trains, since this matter is receiving 
comprehensive consideration in our docket No. 29543.


Dated at Washington, D. C., this thirtieth day of July, 1946.


By the Commission, Commissioner Patterson.


W. P. BARTEL,

(SEAL)

Secretary.


FOOTNOTE:


1                                                              Under authority 
of section 17 (2 of the Interstate Commerce Act the above-entitled proceeding 
was referred by the Commission to Commissioner Patterson for consideration and 
disposition.




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>
> I'm helping Chuck Spinner with research for his book about the 1946 
> Naperville crash which involved the Advance Flyer heading for Lincoln and the 
> Exposition Flyer going to California.  In that connection, can anyone help 
> with these queries?
> 
> 
> 
> The Advance Flyer made an unscheduled stop for observation after a trainman 
> thought he saw something fly from under the train. Should the engineer have 
> sounded his horn when stopping?  If so, why didn't he? (It would probably not 
> have made any difference but Chuck is curious about this.)
> 
> Finally, does anyone know where office car The Round Up is or whether it is 
> still in existence?  This was the buffet/parlor/solarium observation car #220 
> Mississippi which was rebuilt after the crash as The Round Up, was sold by BN 
> to Bombardier Ltd. who resold it to Ron Salisbury of Toronto, Canada, in 1972.
> 
> Any information would be gratefully received.
> 
> Rupert Gamlen
> Auckland NZ
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>




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