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Show OAullaiinq iRsd 3uqllA on SlAsuuiiihi&M JLoaIi Wahninq o$ (Danq&A T r A new railroad safety develop ment involving instantaneous and automatic operation of powerful red lights at both head and rear ends of trains making emergency stops is being installed by the Chicago and North Western Railway system. Should a train with this equipment come to an emergency stop, either because the engineer set the brakes or because the air hose between any of the cars had parted, oscil lating red lights at both head and rear ends of the train would go into operation automatically. The powerful pow-erful beams would serve as "stop" warnings to all other trains approaching ap-proaching from either direction. On clear nights the red lights are visible visi-ble for several miles and have considerable con-siderable penetrative cower in rain or fog. They can also be seen over a long range in daylight. The automatic principle and the lights themselves were developed by 1 the railroad and the Mars Signal Light company of Chicago working work-ing in close co-operation. It is the B fourth successful step in railroad safety research accomplished by the 8 two organizations in the past 10 8 years. The first came in 1936 when the Mars oscillating headlight, now 3 a regular feature on many of the na- tion's fast trains, was placed on the ' original steam-powered "400." r I |