Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1910 — Germany's Miniature Railway. [ARTICLE]

Germany's Miniature Railway.

Germany possess a miniature but most useful railway, of which the chief peculiarity Is that its trains have no drivers. It is used for carrying salt from the salt mines at Strassfurt. The train consists of 30 trucks, each carrying half a ton of salt. The engines are electric, of 24 horsepower each. As the train approaches a station, of which, there are five along the line, It automatically rings a bell, and the station attendant turns a switch to receive It. He Is ble to stop It at any moment.