Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1918 — OFFICIAL SIGNALS ON TRAIN [ARTICLE]

OFFICIAL SIGNALS ON TRAIN

Flags Indicating Kind of Weather Expected Are Placed en Smokestack of Engine. In western Kansas, whenever the dally 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 condpctors of that railroad, who promptly place signal flags indicating the kind of weather expected, on special staffs 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.