Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1912 — PUCES TORPEDO ON TRACK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PUCES TORPEDO ON TRACK

Arrangement Becently Put In Operation Does Away With Necessity of Stopping Train. Since the railroads adopted the torpedo method of signaling there have been various devices for the placing of torpedoes along the tracks. The object, of course, was to drop the torpddo without stopping the train and without exploding the signal. A Kansas man ipm invented a machine which has & ■■fiWrrtyri extending from the rear platform of a train to the tracks, where It

runs on a small wheel at the bottom. Gripping jaws are on the end of the rod pivoted in this carrier and which can be raised to the platform railing for the Insertion of a torpedo. They are then lowered to the level of the track and at the point where the torpedo is needed it can be deposited gently by releasing the grip of the Jaws upon it.