Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-07-15 | Page 4 | Safety Devises for Railroads

I SAfETY DEVIS S fOR RAiLROADS CHICAGO July 15 The The question t on as lS asto asto to the tho possibility of preventing both headon and abutting 7 collisions between railroad trains on either cither single or 01 double track will be determined by a n. committee of th the American Railway association in inan an arts inspection of safety devices which I will be adopted on tho the Durlin Burlington ton road i Friday The inspection will be he tho the first installation in of safety d devices ices which has hag been made under tho the direction of tho the interstate in commerce commission under the authority granted grafted to it by congress which appropriated for the tho pur purpose pose poso One device ico consists of an arrangement ar are ar- ar attached to the thc track and projecting above it When Whon the signal i 11 ii set act for danger the device is also set for operation and aud should the signal be overrun overrun over over- run a aol valve ol is opened underneath the engine which lets out tb the air nir and sets seh the brakes S Another device de is guaranteed 1 to make a collection of an any kind kin even cn on a n single track trac an m impossibility It is said that the device dc is such that when a train enters a block IJ it sets a stop apparatus at tho the other en end of the tho block With ith this set for operation if an engineer engi neer attempts to disregard the si ni and nd to enter the block from either di direction direction di tho automatic stop opens the theair theair theair air valve on the thc locomotive setting tho the brakes and brin bringing in the train to a full stop