Word: flagman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rear, an oldfashioned wooden coach full of Binghamton commuters and Erie workers going home to Susquehanna, Pa. Near the Binghamton city line No. 8 was stopped by a red block signal while just ahead a freight backed into a siding to clear the main line. No. 8's flagman sprinted back with red lantern and track torpedoes. Several minutes behind No. 8 out of Binghamton was a fast milk train (No. 2). At the throttle was Engineer Martin ("Biddy") King, 62, heavyset, red-faced veteran of the Erie service. As he approached B D tower, the block signal changed...
...speed against the rules. Accused of "assuming too much," he replied: "Everyday service led me to assume. It made me a little bold. I was taking a chance and going a little too fast. . . . But the collision wouldn't have occurred if No. 8's flagman had got off where he should...
...flagman swings his lamp, or his flag or hand, in a vertical circle at half-arm's length across the track. The engineer blows three short blasts, his indication that he has understood the signal to back.* Then he throws the locomotive into reverse. If he has a power reverse gear he just turns a little wheel, steam doing the rest. If he has a hand reverse gear he has to push hard and knows that the antic steam may kick the lever and break...
Died. Agnew Thomson Dice, 69, president of Reading Co. (railroad); of heart disease while returning from the theatre with his wife aboard a street car; in Philadelphia. Self-made, he obtained his first job (flagman of a section gang) from the late President Rea of Pennsylvania R. R., then a track supervisor. He joined the Reading in 1897, became president in 1918. White House Physician Joel Thompson Boone is his nephew...
Early in the week a mill near Tokyo's railway station closed down because of the general business depression, threw hundreds of factory hands out of work. Kiyoshi Tanabe, a railway flagman employed at the plant, ate a large meal, drank quantities of water, then kilting his short cotton jacket about him swarmed up the silent factory chimney and sat on the top vowing that he would never come down till his fellow workmen were re-engaged...