Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1912 — SIGNALS, THEN STOPS TRAIN [ARTICLE]

SIGNALS, THEN STOPS TRAIN

Invention of Australian, Recently Tested In England, to Prevent Railroad Collisions. A demonstration was given at London, Eng., recently, of an electrical invention by A. R. Angus of Sydney, N. S. W., to prevent railroad accidents by means of electric automatic signaling In the cab of the locomotive, and the automatic stopping of the train Tests were made with two locomotives on the Great Western railroad on a disused section of that system. Electric wires were run beside th* track. An arm from the engine travels on the wire. When the train enters a block in which there Is another train a whisle blows In the cab. Immediately afterward, If the engineer has not stopped the train, the electric apparatus automatically cuts off the steam and sets the brakes. Two locomotives started from points two miles apart at full speed toward each other. The engineers after starting the mechanism climbed out. When the locomotives entered the same block the warning whistles blew, the electric mechanism worked and the engines stopped within a hundred yards of each other.