Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1912 — ENGINES HAVE STACK LIDS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ENGINES HAVE STACK LIDS

Swiss Railroads Devise Means of Lessening Smoke and Gas in Tunnels. The Swiss railroad companies have devised a means of lessening the smoke and gas in the many tunnels along their lines that might be adopted by the American roads with much comfort to the passengers. The

smokestacks of the Swiss locomotives are all provided with lids and when the train enters a tunnel the lid is closed down and the steam exhausts beneath the locomotive, thus reducing the amount of smoke, gas or steam that gets into the tunnel to a minimum. Except during the progress of the trains through the longer tunnels no firing is done. —Popular Mechanics.

Smokestack With Lid.