Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1916 — HOOKS PLACED UNDER PILOT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOOKS PLACED UNDER PILOT

Device Which It Is Claimed Will Prevent Any Possibility of the Derail merit of Trains. With the idea of preventing the derailment of a locomotive when it encounters some minor track obstruction, a Louisville railway man has constructed a hook fender which is intended to be attached at the back

on the underside of a pilot. It consists of a row of large hooks the points of which face forward in such a position as to grapple things which the pilot might riot strike. —Popular Mechanics Magazine. «• *

Hooks Arranged Beneath the Pilot of Locomotive to Prevent Derailments.