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Where To Sit

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
July
Year
1882
Copyright
Public Domain
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li ves in our haud every day we step on board a vailway car, it is well to know which is the placo of greatest security in the train. The car neaiest the engine is exposed to the least dust, and the rear car of a train is generally safer than the front car. The safest is probably the last car but one in train oE more than two cars; that is, there are fewer chances of accidents to this than any other. If it is a way train at moderate speed, or any train standing stil!, a collision is possible from another train in the rear, in wbich the last car receives the Ürst sheck. Again, the engine and the front cars of a train will often run over a broken rail, or a cow, or stone, without detriment, while the last car, having nothing to draw it into the line of the train, is free to leave the track. Next to the forward car, the rear car is probably the most unsafe in the train. The safest seat is probably near the center of the last car but one. Unfortunately, however, everybody cannot have that seat, and the rnajority must still run risks.

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Ann Arbor Democrat