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New Jersey Herald - May 9, 1912 issue
A Runaway Car

Leaves Freight Yard Mysteriously

(From Branchville Corespondent.)

About 5:30 o'clock Saturday morning as operator Frank Hagaman at the Augusta Station arose from his slumbers to enter upon his daily routine of work, to his amazement he discovered a box car standing on the main track just west of the depot. Upon investigation, he noticed that the breaks [brakes] on the car had been loosened, and after taking the number of the seal at once reported the matter to the Hoboken Authorities. Where the car came from was a mystery for a time, but this was cleared when Harry Clark, the freight agent at the Branchville Depot, put in his appearance around the curve. He had missed the car, and a forced switch disclosed the fact that it had passed out on the main line, so he started out on foot in search of the wanderer. Harry was traveling under full steam and reached the Augusta station in time for the early morning train from Newton, in charge of Conductor Bagshaw, who was notified of the car, and pushed it back to Branchville. The course taken by the car is slightly down grade, and it is claimed that while it stood in the Branchville freight yards the breaks [brakes] were known to have been securely set. That it should start out on this long journey seems incredible.


[For the record, I know how to spell 'brakes', but apparently the author of this article did not.]

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