Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1917 — To Prevent Trains Being Blown Away. [ARTICLE]

To Prevent Trains Being Blown Away.

The danger of trains being blown off the rails, not uncommon on light, nar-row-gauge railroads, has been virtually eliminated on a stretch of 36 miles along the Atlantic coast of Ireland, forming part of the West Clare Railway. An inventor devised for the f railway a pressure-tube anemometer, with electrical apparatus for giving two warnings by ringing a bell in the stationmaster’s house, the first when the velocity of the wind reached 65 jntles n n hour andthesecond. when It reached So mlleS an hour. When the first warning Is given, over a ton of movable ballast, kept for the purpose at every station, is placed on each vehicle of any train on the line at the first station it reaches. When the second signal Is given, trains are stopped until the storm abates.