Salvo v. New York Central Railroad

The deceased employee was working for the New York Central Railroad Company in its roundhouse in the city of Rensselaer. His employment was to clean the fireboxes of engines. All engines coming into the Albany station, which need their fireboxes cleaned, are sent across the river to the Rensselaer roundhouse. There was a so-called “ pool ” of engines, seven in number, which were used in and about the Albany yards. The engines of this “ pool ” were used indiscriminately in interstate and intrastate commerce, but chiefly in the former. There is a heavy grade between Albany and Schenectady going…