Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1910 — CARS THAT WON’T TELESCOPE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CARS THAT WON’T TELESCOPE

The New Missouri Pacific Mail Coach Is Expected to Save Clerks in Accidents. To prevent the usual smashing of mall cars In every wreck In which they are Involved the Missouri Pacific

failroad has adopted and soon will provide on its mail trains mall cars of all steel construction, said to be the strongest cars of this type ever built By this means oflScials of the road hope to do away with the lists

of killed and Injured mail clerks, placed, as they are, in positions of danger, near the locomotives of mail trains. The special mail cars are designed by A. W. Sullivan, general manager of the Missouri Pacific. The cars are 60 feet long inside, are equipped with six wheel trucks

and have steel frames and floors, on whlc his laid an asbestos covering for insulation and a wood floor for the comfort of the clerks. The side walls are of steel, faced with hair felt and asbestos inside.

A New Type of Mail Car, Adopted by the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Is of All-Steel Construction, Designed to Protect Clerks in Wrecks.