Show wham C WV fam CATS ABLE TO STOP TRAINS engineers say eyes of feline family are bike signal lamps at night brookfield mo did you ever see a black cats eyes when they were in the line of an electric lighta asked ben woodlief ef traveling engineer for the missouri division of the burling ton road it one steps on the rail road track ahead of the engine and looks up the engineer sees two vivid lights ahead ot him as large and clearly defined as any signal service lights on the road sometimes they are red but most generally green or white in the night time of course the engineer can t see the cat and all he can do is to run in obedience to the cat eye signals it they are white he goes ahead without slack ing if green he is cautious it red he applies he air to make a stop si a train la brought to a dead halt beffie the engineer learns what s up against him the running men tell me that the eyes of polecat s wit rabbits are almost ai perfect fl ia nals as cats eyes Is there a been no talk of training cats to act as elg calmen engineers would stand tor it because they hate cats on general principles and if they had their way would be happy to lay the universal feline on the rails in front of their locomotives and crowd on all steam |