Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1911 — Telephone on Trains. [ARTICLE]

Telephone on Trains.

It is reported that the Pennsylvania railroad is experimenting with the use of the telephone for communication between the locomotive cab and the caboose of long freight trains. This will do away with the necessity of signaling by means of lamps, hand signals and whistles. In foggy weather and at night such a means of communication would expedite the handling of freight.