Re: NNG Freight Train Conductor Shot Dead!!!

Maybe it time to hook up a air hose from the front line to use to "clean out the cab". 90=110 pounds in someone face should do some damage when needed.

Ry & Loco Engineering Journal April 1901:

Automatic Train Robber Killer.

The Rio Grande Railroad, in Colorado. has equipped its locomotives with a novel train robber killing device. It is a mean of playing scalding water and steam over the bandits. There is an extra piece of steel pipe running up from the bottom of the boiler to the back of the engine cab, where it is flattened out fan shaped, the angle of the fan embracing tile front, top and sides of the blind baggage and express. Another device of practically the same kind covers the front, top and sides of the locomotive itself. Other engines have a steam pipe and hose just back of the engineer, where it is handy to grab quickly.

But the fireman had seen the whole performance and tipped off the affair to the engineer, who turned on a small stream and slowed up to see the fun. The white mist had no sooner stuck the hobos than they made a dive off the tops of the cars. The two fellows with guns, who were back with the conductor and brakeman, worked their way ahead to see what caused all the excitement, when they got a few stray splashes of hot water in the face and they also jumped.