Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1911 — “Sheep-Nose" Cars. [ARTICLE]

“Sheep-Nose" Cars.

An interesting type of car is in use on the electric railroad running from Indianapolis to Toledo. This car is provided with a parabolic front end, commonly called a "sheep-nose.” The object of this arrangement is to reduce wind resistance when the cars are running at high speed, also to make it easier for the car to force its way through snow drifts. The frame of the car is very strongly built, and is arranged to carry a steel sheathed pilot which serves as a snow plow.