. Railroad digest . he La Crosse division established a new flag station theother day. It was nothing but a whistling post, but the roadbuilt a platform and laid a sidetrack. There was not enoughbusiness to pay a regular agent out there, so the old fellowwho keeps the store was appointed a kind of an agent. Thefirst day there the through passenger train was com-ing at about forty miles an hour, and the old fellow was onthe platform waving his red flag. The train stopped at theplatform. When the conductor jumped off there wasnt a manin sight except the man who ran the store. Wheres yourpassenge
. Railroad digest . he La Crosse division established a new flag station theother day. It was nothing but a whistling post, but the roadbuilt a platform and laid a sidetrack. There was not enoughbusiness to pay a regular agent out there, so the old fellowwho keeps the store was appointed a kind of an agent. Thefirst day there the through passenger train was com-ing at about forty miles an hour, and the old fellow was onthe platform waving his red flag. The train stopped at theplatform. When the conductor jumped off there wasnt a manin sight except the man who ran the store. Wheres yourpassengers? the conductor asked him. Why, he says, Ihavent got any passengers, What did you flag us for? Ithought mebbe some one wanted to get off here.—MinneapolisSentinel. English Exhaust Pipe Crewe, England, 10th December, :—In last months (Nov.) issue of the RailkoadDigest I noticed an illustration and description of a new ex-haust pipe for locomotives designed by Mr. J. B. Barnes, oftht; Wabash As showing how, sometimes, two individuals, quite inde-pendently of each other, work out the same idea, I encloseyou a tracing of a cone or torpedo for a locomotive exhaustpipe which I designed in January, 1887, and applied to someof our locomotives at that time, from which it will be seenthat I was then working at the same idea that Mr. Barnes haslately been trying to carry out in his new exhaust truly, F. W. ^VEBB,Locomotive Superintendent,London & North Western Railway. The Andrew Ventilator By invitation of the Andrew Ventilator Company, of Newark,X. J., a party of railroad officials and other persons interestedm the subject of passenger car ventilation, on Wednesday, Jan-uary 8, made a trip from Jersey City to Philadelphia and re-turn to observe the working of the Andrew Ventilator withwhich a ear of the Jersey Central Railroad is fitted. The ven-tilator, which is the invention of Mr. William E. Andrew, andwhich has beeri in use for over a year, is
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