Stuart Johnson

Missouri turkey hunters checked in a harvest of over 43 thousand birds for the regular spring turkey season which ended Monday.

Bethany's Board of Aldermen received information on the feasibility report being investigated by the Natural Resource Conservation Service for a

A wet week statewide slowed Missouri's crop planting, but greatly improved the state's soil moisture conditions. Here's Brad Summa with the Missouri Crop Progress Report.

Tuesday Scoreboard Rock Port 13 Albany 3 St Joseph Christian 11 Princeton 1 Osborn/Stewartsville 15 King City 5

The Missouri Department of Revenue has announced the new management contract for the Unionville License office. The office has been closed since January 5th.

North Central Missouri College is now operating on summer hours through August 9, 2024. Office hours for the public will be Monday-Thursday, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m for all locations.

Missouri reported higher revenues April when compared to last year. State Budget Director Dan Haug announced the April 2024 revenue of $1.38 billion this year.

"The next point to be considered is how it could happen that the Broad-Street starting signal and the distant-signal from the New-Inn-Yard cabin could both be lowered at a time when the up-goods-train was crossing or about to cross the down-main-line at the New-Inn-Yard cabin. The signals at the approach to the Broad-Street station were at that time in a state of transition. The starting signal was, so to speak, on the wrong side of the distant-signal, that is to say, on the north of it, and was not interlocked with the signals of the New-Inn-Yard cabin. This signal has since fallen into disuse; the arms have been removed and the post is to be taken away; and it has been replaced by a starting-signal immediately at the end of the platform, which will better answer the purpose. The distant-signal from the New-Inn-Yard cabin had been worked according to the common practice of the North-London Railway, in such a way that it remained off excepting in case of obstruction. It is the general rule on the railways of this country that all distant-signals worked from junction-cabins shall remain, as well as the home-signals, at danger, and shall only be lowered for a train to pass when it is right for the train to do so. The occurrence of this collision is an important instance of the disadvantage of departing from that rule, because the engine-driver was misled, and was induced, apparently, to pass this signal, and to believe that the line was clear for him to run towards Shoreditch, at a time when a dangerous obstruction was being or was about to be made within 478 yards of the point from which he started."

I came across this video last year and have waited for some time to see if something else would radically change my perspective. Most of the rest of 2-10 on the list are posts here on LessWrong, so I thought I would share this as well.

"The whole of the witnesses agree that the speed of the train, when entering the station, was very moderate and I think it probably did not exceed hand-brake speed. The driver says that when about halfway down the platform he found that the hand-brakes (tender and two brake-vans) were not pulling the train up sufficiently, and I can therefore only surmise that those brakes were not applied quite soon enough, or, which is more probable, that they were not on as tightly as they are represented to have been. As soon as the driver realised the state of affairs he applied his vacuum-brake with full force, with the result that all the wheels of the train"picked up"or"skidded."He noticed that the two indicators of his gauge showed the vacuum to have been destroyed both in the train pipe and in the vacuum chamber, and he assumed from this that the automatic-brake was out of order; he then tried to reverse his engine, by which time it had struck the vehicles standing at the buffer-stops, with the result already stated."