Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1912 — Speedometers on Trains. [ARTICLE]

Speedometers on Trains.

The St. Louis & San Francisco railroad, having tested a device tar recording the speed on locomotives by using It on twenty-five passenger engines, has found results so satisfactory that the forty new passenger engines which have been purchased win ill be equipped with these speed recorders. W. C. Nixon, vice-president of the Frisco, says that every main line engine will be equipped with this device, by which the engineer can determine exactly the speed at which he is running, and which also leaves a record behind, which can be checked up as a guard against running at too high a rate of speed.