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Show Safety Pilot for Railway Trains. An apparatus which promises to materially ma-terially lessen the danger to human life in case of collision on railways has just appeared. It consists of a collapsible buffer, which, attached to and propelled in front of a train, will receive the force of the shock and permit the train to be brought to a standstill without being injured in-jured or derailed. The apparatus is provided pro-vided with a scries of air chambers connected con-nected to telescope together and permit the air to be gradually driven out, and mounted on a rolling support, which may be held near to, or' removed some distance dis-tance in advance of the train by the folding fold-ing or unfolding of tbe telescoping sections. sec-tions. Either compressed air or steam may be admitted as desired to both series of air chanibevs.-No w York Telegram. |