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INSTALLATIONS MADE VOLUNTARILY

Following is information concerning such installations of train-stop and train-control
devices as have been made voluntarily by the carriers indicated, in addition to those
required by the orders of June 13, 1922, and January 14, 1924, Docket No. 13413:

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1 In addition to the mileage shown, 22 inductors have been installed for reverse movement on 1 track be-
tween DeWitt, N. Y., and Verona, N. Y.

FALSE-CLEAR TRAIN-CONTROL FAILURES

Reports received from the carriers covering the performance of automatic train-stop or
train-control devices installed under our orders of June 13, 1922, and January 14, 1924,
for the period September 1, 1927, to August 31, 1928, show a total of 22 false-clear train-
control failures. These failures classify as follows:

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INDEX

Abandonment of lines, certificates of public convenience and necessity

for; Appendix F-----

Accidents. See Casualties and accidents.

Accounts and accounting:

Bureau of Accounts_.

Depreciation...‒‒‒

Revision of classifications---

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Acquisition and operation of lines, certificates of public convenience and
necessity for; Appendix F..

Acquisition of control:

4, 299

Rail carriers, authorization under paragraph 2 of section 5 of inter-
state commerce act; Appendix F..

4,300

Telephone companies, authorization under paragraph 9 of section 407
of transportation act; Appendix F..

4,301

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A. Indictments returned, informations, complaints, and petitions filed
and cases concluded___

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B. Summaries showing action taken with respect to cases involving
orders or requirements of commission and status of cases pend-
ing in the courts__

95

C. Statistical summaries

109

D. Points decided by commission in reported rate and valuation
cases, with index and table of cases..

133

E. Digest of Federal court decisions--

285

F. Certificates and orders issued under various sections of the inter-
state commerce and transportation acts, and statement of pay-
ments under section 15a of interstate commerce act___.
G. Statistical compilations covering installation of train-stop or train-
control devices

295

305

Appropriations and expenditures, statement for fiscal year ended June 30,
1928_.

Assumption of obligations and liabilities in respect of securities__.
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. v. Standard Oil Co. (275 U. S. 257).
Authority, recommendation concerning delegation of__
Automatic train control. See Train control.

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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. v. United States (277 U. S. 291)

1 Not complete list but all here involved.

22

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Bids, advantages of competitive, in sale of securities...

Bills of lading act, indictments returned, informations and complaints

121

filed, and cases concluded in the courts for violations of; Appendix A__ 15, 87
Block-signal statistics_.

Boards of referees_.

Brimstone Railroad & Canal Co. v. United States (276 U. S. 104).

Bureau of:

Accounts

Finance

Formal Dockets

Informal Cases_

Inquiry

Law

Locomotive Inspection

Safety

41

79

19

1

3

62

15

15

17

29

32

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Capital, railway, amount actually outstanding and net income, 1910-1927,
steam roads, excluding switching and terminal companies; Appendix C.
Car service:

112

Advisory boards, car-service division of American Railway Asso-
ciation

Coal traffic_

Cotton__.

Efficiency and economy of operation__.

Embargoes---

Forest products.

Grain and grain-products traffic_

Grape traffic_

Livestock___.

Miscellaneous freight..

Perishable freight.

Recommendation of punishment for bribes in connection with.

Refrigerator cars in service____

Transportation of explosives and dangerous articles_.

Vegetables

Casualties and accidents:

Automatic train-stop, installations____

Classified according to occupation__

Collisions__.

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Dangerous articles, carriage of, as cause_.

Derailments_.

Employees, killed and injured__.

Failures of locomotives and tenders-.

Highway grade crossings____

Number of persons killed in railway accidents_-

failure of appurtenances of locomotives and tenders__.

Number of accidents, number of persons killed and injured due to

Steam roads, connection with operation of steam trains__.

Suicides

Casualties and accidents-Continued.

Summary of, to persons on steam roads in the United States for years
ending December 31, 1923, to December 31, 1927, inclusive; Appen-
dix C

Train accidents investigated by commission_.

Certificates. See Convenience and necessity; Deficits; etc.

Chicago & Erie R. Co. v. United States (22 Fed. (2d) 729)––
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Investigation (131 I. C. C. 615).

Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. et al. v. Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Co. (113 I. C. C. 681)__.

Page

40, 132

35

34

69

Classification act of 1923, recommendation requesting relief from---

Classification of freight..

Class-Rate readjustments_

Clayton Act, complaints under___

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Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co. v. United States
(275 U. S. 404).

18

Coal

43, 48

Coal, consumed by locomotives, Class I roads, not including switching and
terminal companies; Appendix C‒‒‒‒‒‒‒

45, 116

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Court proceedings, for violations of interstate commerce, Elkins, and

bills of lading acts; Appendix A---

Concurrences, certificates of, number filed with section of tariffs_

Congress, recommendations to the___

15, 87

53

81

Congressional resolutions. See Resolutions of Congress.

Consolidated Southwestern cases:

(123 I. C. C. 203)

(139 I. C. C. 535).

(144 I. C. C. 630)

(147 I. C. C. 165)_

Consolidation of railroads (63 I. C. C. 455).

Consolidations:

Recommendations respecting rail_.

Telephone companies; Appendix F---

Construction of new lines. See New-line construction.

Contingent fund. See Revolving fund.

Control, acquisition of. See Acquisition of control.

Convenience and necessity:

59

59

59

59

82

60, 81

4,301

Acquisition and operation of lines, certificates issued; Appendix F-- 4, 299
Construction, abandonment, extension, etc., certificates for; Ap-

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Indictments returned, informations and complaints filed, and cases
concluded for violations of interstate commerce, Elkins, and bills of
lading acts; Appendix A-----

15, 87

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Summaries showing action taken with respect to cases involving
orders or requirements of commission and status of pending cases
in the courts; Appendix B..

17,95

Crossings. See Grade crossings.

Dangerous articles, transportation of___.

45

Decided cases, points decided by the commission in reported cases, with
index and table of cases; Appendix D..

133

Deficits:

Cases dismissed under section 204 of the transportation act, 1920;
Appendix F

13, 302

Certificates issued in settlements of, under section 204 of the trans-
portation act, 1920; Appendix F---.

13, 302

Deficit Settlement with Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Ry. (117 I. C. C. 780)__
Deficit Status of Bingham & Garfield (99 I. C. C. 724).

13

13

Delegation of authority of commission, recommendation concerning_---
Density of traffic. See Volume of traffic.

82

Depreciation accounting--

Derailments, defects in or failure of locomotives and tenders as cause____
Dering Coal Co. v. Chicago, C., C. & St. L. Ry. Co.:

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Dividends, steam roads, 1910-1927, excluding switching and terminal

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Percentage of locomotives and freight cars unserviceable, 1920-1928__
Repairs in outside shops‒‒‒‒‒

45

44

Efficiency rating of commission's employees__

61

Electric railroads, status under section 15a, interstate commerce act___.
Electric railways:

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Elkins Act, indictments returned, informations and complaints filed, and
cases concluded in the courts for violations of; Appendix A------
Embargoes---.

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Class I roads, average numbers of, total and average compensa-
tion per annum, fiscal year ended June 30, 1928; Appendix C-- 52, 128
Number and compensation of employees, 1910-1927; Appendix C_

114

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