Q. Double-headers, as they were called?
A. Double-headers, as we called them.
Q. Why was there less objection to running double-headers?
A. In the first place it is very disagreeable for the men, and they consider it dangerous for one thing, and in running these trains it cuts a good many of them out of employment.
Q. Reduce the force of train men, not engineers?
A. Not of engineers, of trainmen.
Q. Wherein consisted the danger of running double-headers?
A. In the first place you hold just twice as many cars, and you don't have any more men on the train to hold them. Brakemen would hold thirty-four cars with two engines, and seventeen cars with one. If these trains get started they are pretty hard to manage.
Q. Did you have these engines at the head of the trains at all times, or did you have one in the front and one in the rear?
A. At the head all the time, they consider it safer that way to run them than to run one behind. Going through these up and down grades and turning is liable to break.