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Show NO MORE RAILROAD COLLISIONS. Numerous methods for preventing railroad trains from running into each other have been patented, but the invention of J. W. James is the most whimsical of them all. Railroad men have no faith in any of these accident-preventers, which are regarded only as a good joke. Mr. James' scheme is to have a powerful spiral spring stretching out in front of the locomotive, carried by small trucks. Now, when there is a collision, the shock will be relieved by these springs, you J see. There is a wooden figure of a man mounted on one of' the trucks, and whenever there i3 a collision the wooden man beats lustily lust-ily on a gong, so as to a33ure the passengers that everything is all right. I Practical railroaders know that when two heavy trains are try- ! ing to pass each other on the same track any flimsy buffer arrangement arrange-ment would be of no use whatever. j |