Show railroad fog signals signal A london paper contains an account of if the elaborate precautions precaution taken by an anglish railway company to prevent acci accidents tents on its main line in that city when one of the heavy log fogs peculiar to the metropolis settles nettles over it on thin nine miles ol of road there are nine stations station including the main term litus laus at tile the largest of these there are forty eight signal posts the second in size ha has s twenty nine the third has thirty four and ail all nine have whenever a toe fog settles down a man Is stationed at ever one of 0 these posts and the engineers get their running instructions Instruct loni from rom these men no dependence being placed in the signals to man this section of track for bix hours from morn ing until noon costs the company 65 when a fog man furnishes his own refreshments he is allowed eighteen cents a shift so BO that the expense to the company for food for a single shift would be nearly 24 34 it if reliance were placed in torpedoes about would be required in six hours and their cost would be equal to or even more than the expenses of the fog og men while the english engineers prefer to have the latter very few collisions have occurred under this system of operation in spite of the pitchy darkness of a london fog washington star |