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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 7 (November 1, 1928)

Thought For Summer Tourists

Thought For Summer Tourists

The average automobile weighs, say, 2,000lb. without a load. Such an automobile, even when loaded with four or five people weighs less than 3,000lb. Suppose this 2,800lb. load tries a tilt at a railway crossing with a freight engine weighing close to 400,000lb. Is there any doubt in your mind as to which would be victorious? Yet, daily, car drivers try to beat the engine to a crossing, and busy newspaper men are forced to write heart-rending stories of the manner in which the passengers in the automobile were either killed or injured. —From the “Railway Age.”