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Mwnber Associated Prees* v * .Vital w.mRelay Blasted With Two Shots; CTC Put Out Of Control -Police of the Western Maryland Railway are advancing their investigation into the damaging of a ■ • vital signal connection .Friday on . the Connellsville subdivision three miles west of Frostburg.Officials said a person armed with, a shotgun blasted two “pumpkin ball’* slugs into a relay box of the central traffic control system. \ Central traffic control is the’ system •that ailows the' dispatcher! to run the railroad, setting speeds, j switches, and controlling the movement of .trains between Cumberland and~Deal; :Pa;. up Savage Mountain. jThe CTC, as it is known, wasj only. out of commission a lew* * hours,- hut railroad.officers pointed out that.the damaging of'this eom-/■' municalions system is. an offense that can be tried, in federal court. Railway police have the two,. shotgun shells and a number of other clues after, ah around-the-clock investigation yesterday.Bernard Bealky, officer in-charge of agents on the Cumber-land-Elkins Division, reported that all persons found'.trespassing .on the railroad tracks, carrying guns will b®.. arrested and prosecuted . through federal statutes.He pointed out that it if thepractice of hunters to .use the railroad right-of-way for walking.As a result, railroad equipment, especially signal lights and devices, often falls prey to the ‘'play-fur* shots,of these hunters.Bealky reported progress on an investigation of the communications line-cutting in the vicinity of 0\dtown several weeks ago.He commented that one of the lines cut was a- government-controlled-line, and added that the interruption ofit constitutes a federal violation.Rocks were wedged in a switch on the railroad* west of-here this past week and were detected before a train could pass. -VGTG■J.' / •s
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Cumberland Times
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Sun, Apr 15, 1956
Page 36
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