Show i I RAilROAD MEN SHOW I INTEREST IN SWITCH T Local railroad men fire are deeply In ln Interested In a n device which has liaa been perfected by l j an eastern eastorn man design designed J ed d to enable tho rho engineer of oC au D ap preaching proa locomotive to open or 01 close a il switch at al hia his will controlling the action entirely from the cab cah and doing doingt tit t awa away with Iho tho need of help of switch switchmen O men nten or Jr tho delay often ofton resulting r from waiting for lor the throwing of a It I 1 switch aitch The device delce Is simple In con consisting of or a system of or levers placed place In a It pit between the I rails and operated by b projections from J I the tho locomotive A lever adjacent to f tho the right hand bond rail Is double carry carryIng crr I Ing a n counterweight and a hook hool which l lin In Its normal condition Is blow below the tho S level lol of or the rail service Upon the tho Ii approach of a train about to enter tho the siding a projection on the side of or the engine IB is made mad to engage a small vertical rod beside tho tiro track f which operates to throw the hook hoole i above tho surface of tho the mil rail Then Thon u upon on tho advance of oC the engine the 1 su Bamo sarno s time projection engages the hook I l pulls It forward and auel throws tho rho thoI switch when a stationary block In Inthe tho the path of 0 r the lever leor causes tho rho I engagement of oC tho the loser leer hook from l the projection on the side sille of oC the en engine r give gine and the tho hook returns to Its nor normal norl norI l I mal position below belo the tIlo rail mil and an out I of the lie way of the next locomotive e ethe the tho switch being locked In position by bythe b bt t the counterweight n When Whon the right lover is carried canted In InI r I C one direction to lo open the switch an nn another anI I I other lever Icer at the loft hand rail is t carried In the opposite direction s I Should another ano her engine approach and ii I the engineer wish to keep to the f t t main track tract ho may cause a projection JJ i In the loft left of his 1115 engine to lo depress j f the vertical rod trod at the left raising f r I the lefthand hook hool and pulling it for forward forward ward to close the switch The Tho device Is attracting the atten attention I lion tion of t western vestern railroad men and It Is C said Bald General Superintendent Park Parl of r i the Union Pacific system has ap apr api r j i proved the Invention In nUon after a n most thorough Investigation |