Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1911 — TRAIN LOSES ITS WHISTLE [ARTICLE]

TRAIN LOSES ITS WHISTLE

Odd Incident That la Believed to Mark ■J a Record, at Least on This Particular Lina. It occurred one day recently, and the passengers on the Big Sandy train are smiling yet when they think of the oddest Incident that has happened on that branch of the Chesapeake & Ohio in years. The train bound for Ashland lost its whistle while still many miles up the valley, and was forced to stop and back up almost the entire distance, looking for that whittle, which was eventually found miles away from where it was missed. The loss delayed the train five hours. It was due at Catlettsburg at five o’clock in the evening, but didn’t reach that point until ten o’clock that night. Trains have been known to lose their switchmen, their cabooses and sometimes a whole cut of cars, but never before has a Big Sandy train been known to lose its whistle. Under the law, a train may not operate without a whistle, and It was this fact that caused the conductor of this train to run back over many miles of track to locate the lost object.—Pikesville Advocate.