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Speaking from experience: In replying to suggestion that freight trains should have reflective material to make them visible at night, retired railway engineer Herbert Stitt points out that, in more than half the accidents in which he was involved, a car struck the train in daylight
Speaking from experience: In replying to suggestion that freight trains should have reflective material to make them visible at night, retired railway engineer Herbert Stitt points out that, in more than half the accidents in which he was involved, a car struck the train in daylight

Speaking from experience: In replying to suggestion that freight trains should have reflective material to make them visible at night, retired railway engineer Herbert Stitt points out that, in more than half the accidents in which he was involved, a car struck the train in daylight

Date5/26/1984
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0134422F
Man hit by train. A 51-year-old man was struck by a slow-moving freight train as he tried to cross the tracks at Osler St., north of Dupont St., last (...)
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People who have to stand on GO trains should only pay half fare, Port Credit reader Harold Ross recommends in accompanying letter. This is the practice, he says, at hockey or football games
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On Right Track For Fun, Not only is Herbert Stitt an engineer on the CPR's crack flyers Dominion and Canadian, he's an engineer in the basement of his(...)
On Right Track For Fun, Not only is Herbert Stitt an engineer on the CPR's crack flyers Dominion and Canadian, he's an engineer in the basement of his(...)
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Accidents - Railway and Street Railways - Mississauga, Ontario - Royal Commission into Mississauga Train Derailment
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Piled-up freight dwarfs lone man at CN Toronto depot, Businessmen are using all types of vehicles to get goods to trains
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Head-on crash of two CNR freight trains killed at least two men early today at Pefferlaw, 30 miles northeast of Newmarket. Three men were injured, one(...)
3/16/1968
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Two CN trains collided in York borough today, injuring the engineer of one train and derailing six cars of another
Two CN trains collided in York borough today, injuring the engineer of one train and derailing six cars of another
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Baggageman Arthur Manders, 64, of the Canadian National Railways passenger train Lakeshore, points to the place a hold-up man entered the car yesterda(...)
Baggageman Arthur Manders, 64, of the Canadian National Railways passenger train Lakeshore, points to the place a hold-up man entered the car yesterda(...)
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Way of life: Engineer Joe Tiernay has been riding the rails for 42 years and thinks showers on trains might be a good way of encouraging travel by rail
Way of life: Engineer Joe Tiernay has been riding the rails for 42 years and thinks showers on trains might be a good way of encouraging travel by rail
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Journey through time: Herbert Stitt, 91, traces 47-year railway career in his book I Remember
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