. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ateddescriptive pamphlet which makes usthink of Chicago and Milwaukee as two ahead in the center rail for a distanceof a few miles, in which zone, if any-thing is wrong, the engineer is imme-diately notified by the ringing of a gongand the lighting of a colored incandes-cent bulb in the cab. For instance, ayellow light means caution, a green onesafety and a red one danger. When the locomotive enters the samezone in which a station stands the op-erator is apprised by a bell. He can givehis sig
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ateddescriptive pamphlet which makes usthink of Chicago and Milwaukee as two ahead in the center rail for a distanceof a few miles, in which zone, if any-thing is wrong, the engineer is imme-diately notified by the ringing of a gongand the lighting of a colored incandes-cent bulb in the cab. For instance, ayellow light means caution, a green onesafety and a red one danger. When the locomotive enters the samezone in which a station stands the op-erator is apprised by a bell. He can givehis signals, to stop or not to stop fororders, to the engineer by pushing but-tons on his desk. Mr. Piddington, who is an electrician,and Mr. Mills, formerly a carpenter,have been working on the invention forthe past two years, although it was notperfected until a short time ago. A company, known as the Mills &Piddington Cab Signal System, has beenincorporated for the purpose of promot-ing the invention. The officers are: Mills, president; H. T. Duff, vice-president; W. H. Sheasby, secretary and. A WESTERNER,- AT THE UNION PACIFIC SHOPS, OMAHA-POWER FOR MOVING FREIGHT OX THE PRAIRIE. THE MODERN cities within easy distance of Joliet. Wehave always thought of Joliet as a placewhere many people were trying to keepaway from, as it contains a particularlycommodious penitentiary, but the Cit-izens Alliance people, who sent out thepamphlet referred to, say that Joliet isan manufacturing city, and agood location for new industries. manager; S. B. Reynolds, general man-ager; C. E. Payne, treasurer; W. , electrical engineer; RobertN, Bulla, attorney, and G. C. DeGarmoand Elizabeth Mills, directors. New Signal System. The Southern Prcific Company are re-ported to be experimenting with a sys-tem of train protection devised by Piddington and C. W. Mills, of LosAngeles. It is known as the three rail sys-tem. The third and center rail is con-si; ucted of V, oc
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