Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1914 — Locomotive Cab Signals. [ARTICLE]

Locomotive Cab Signals.

At a meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineering, at Paris, recently, the subject of locomotive cab signals was discussed, and the opinion was expressed that such signals should always be of the audible kind, as these would not distract the attention of the engine man /from the road in front, and the regular road signals. In support of this suggestion, the evidence of an engine driver at an accident inquiry was quoted as follows: “You must realize that when you are rushing along at sixty or seventy miles an hour you are seldom out of sight of signals, and In the daytime there are always men about the road; and but for the vigilance of drivers I think a number of men would be injured, such as linesmen and others, who are absorbed tn their work. A touch on the whistle first announces your approach, and I do think that everything that can be done to liberate the driver from anything that takes his attention off the road when he is running should be done. The driver should always be able to devote his sole attention to looking out and to. the manipulation of his regulators.".—Scientific American.