Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1917 — Germany Adopts Air Brake. [ARTICLE]

Germany Adopts Air Brake.

A uniform airbrake for freight trains has been adopted in Germany. What this means is apparent to any American who has seen the German railroads, with nearly every freight car surmounted by a -smallpavilion, in which a man sits to operate' the brakes. Henceforth the railways will he able to dispense with an army of brakemen, and all freight trains will be operated exclusively by the engineer. Representatives of the AustroHungarian railways, as well as those of the German states outside of Prussia, have been in Berlin > recently witnessing the final tests of the new system.