Now I feel like I'm sorry. JANET. I didn't mean to do it.
That wreck was all your fault.
You'll never be an engineer
and try to learn to handle your trains more carefully than that.
Who wants to be a railroad engineer.
I'd rather be a racing driver with a car that can go places. Now just a minute.
My boy a Why do you know it
or not you are an engineer right now and engineer like you. Grandpa.
What do you mean you're as much of an engineer resign am Tom.
And you're running a train of your own.
Every day you know right away is the open highway
and the city streets your stations are your home. The school and the stores.
You're a locomotive there's the engine of the car you drive your Pullman is the
body of your car.
While your passengers ride just like the railroads you have warning signs to help
you make a save run.
Your signals at the traffic lights which guy you were long every section in fact
nearly every railroad safety signal is represented along your way
and of course the engineer is you.
So you see you are an engineer though you may not realize it
and because the railroads have set such a marvelous records for safety at high
speed. You certainly are to follow the example of the locomotive engineers.
These men drive hundreds of thousands of miles night and day.
Summer and winter here in
and year out making their great safety record
and the last few years.
Of power
and speed of trains have been increased tremendously by the engineers following the
same safety rules am always observed
and have made the railroads safer than ever before. Today.
Motor cars are faster
and more powerful new used to be a demand a factor as had been increased their
safety even more than their speed. Brakes had been a wider and more positive.
Say for bodies out of solid steel.
With turret tops knee action Springs protect you in case of a blowout
and keep it from turning over.
So
when Shane sensible driving rules are followed these modern cars are a lot safer
than the slower cars of yesterday.
Now railroad engineers know that while equipment today is safer
and roads are vastly improved the biggest back to resave is the driver who uses his
scale and intelligence in driving the same driver always obey the traffic signals.
Even when he can't see anything coming.
He knows that disregard of a slow signal or an attempt to beat the red light.
Is always dangerous.
So we always allow is plenty of room to stop then when they get the signal to go.
The safe driver doesn't spurt ahead at the first blow of the light.
He waits until you're sure
that their way is clear before he starts even though he is a little behind schedule.
He doesn't try to make up time in congested districts.
He knows
that he is responsible for the most precious cargo in the world human life.
His passengers have placed their lives in his hands he never forgets this
responsibility. Never take chances like keeps up almost only one thought safety.
After a long
or unusually hard trip he takes his engine in for a service check up this not only
keeps it in good shape and lengthens its life. But it helps to retain the safety.
That was built in when it was New sure all of things are important
but what's that got to do with me every one of those things applies to you
and your personal driving.
You have rules to follow just as an engineer does what he takes this train out for
a run the engineer of a slow freight never holds up traffic on his section.
He pulls on what it was signing and lets the faster passenger trains pass.
If he has to stop. He gets on. Siting so we won't block that right away.
On the other hand an engineer was never given the high board to start around
another train until right away is clear far enough ahead to give him more than
ample time to pass
and of course no ingenue across is another right away without being absolutely
certain
that I don't know why the train is approaching where there are a pile of tracks.
You never see engineers racing each other to the switch.
They observe the good issues of the road.
The engineer knows that every train he passes is handled by an experienced
and competent driver a motorist does not have this advantage.
So he must be doubly careful.
If older drivers would only stop to think of their responsibility.
If they don't even realize
that the lives of others are in their hands if any remote Arista make the traffic
rules like a locomotive engineer.
I don't drive which would make safety records like the main roads. G grampa.
I never thought about it that way.
But you don't need to worry about my driving any more.
I'm going to run my car like a real engineer.
And you'll bear the mark careful with my crank tools.