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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automatic train control similar to the device announced by the Chicago & Northwestern a month ago ( TIME, Oct. 5). Electro-magnetic waves flow into the rails, are picked up by coils under the locomotive's pilot or cowcatcher," condensed, transmitted to signal devices in the engineer's cab. If the engineer is incapacitated or heedless, the current proceeds to operate controls, braking, throttling, halting the train. The incoming signals are despatched automatically by the block towers along the line and keep engineers informed of the condition of each block of track as lie enters it. The Michigan Central...
...clicking of the ties became a dreamy foxtrot drumming in the ears of people who twisted on lumpy mattresses in small green coffins in its shadowy Pullman cars. A suddenly frightened fireman stared out at the flying night, then made his way forward and peered into the engine cab. At the throttle was a hand- the steady hand of Engineer William Vanbergen, but the body of Engineer William Vanbergen sagged on the floor, and a grey ooze trickled down the side of his sightless face. Engineer William Vanbergen had crushed in his skull 15 miles back against a steel bridge...
Louis D'Arclay gave a spirited performance as Chico, the sewer rat who never let life get the better of him. When he prayed to "le bon Dieu" for his heart's desire, a job on "the hose", a wife with yellow hair, and a ride in a taxi-cab, and even payed good money to burn candles to his favorite saint, nothing happened; and so Chico forthwith became an atheist and went around proclaiming that God owed him fifteen francs. And it must have done some good for eventually God paid the debt. Tormented by a wicked, dope-ridden...
What are those blue sparks under the engine's front truck? What whistle is this that hoots in the cab? The engineer does not stir, the tipsy fireman cannot hear above his clanking rake and the ' shattering roar of the coal car. The whistle in the cab changes its note...
Still the men in the cab and coal car are oblivious. The warning whistle stops. There is a scream of airbrakes all along the train, an unseen hand shuts the steam throttle, the express comes to a grinding, jolting halt. The life it carries is safe. The conductor, trotting beside the ties to investigate, thanks his stars that the Chicago & Northwestern Railway installed its new automatic train control along that particular stretch of track...