Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1918 — OFFICIAL SIGNALS ON TRAIN [ARTICLE]

OFFICIAL SIGNALS ON TRAIN

Flags Indicating Kind of Weather Expected Are Placed on Smokestack of Engine. In western Kansas, whenever the daily weather bulletin in the general offices of a certain railroad company indicates a storm, a blizzard, or a cold wave, the facts'are wired to all train conductors of that railroad, who promptly place signal flags indicating the kind of weather expected, on special stafTs mounted on the engines at each side : of the smokestack. Farmers and other residents along the road also have the benefit of the signals, and appreciate It