The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-22
NOVEL RAILWAY INVENTION.
Its Adoption by the Hudson River Railroad
Compapy-A Fast Train Through TO New OrlI
without StOppinR.


Compapy-A Fast Train Through to New FORK
without stopping.
From the POu9hkeepsie Eagle
The Hudson River Railroad Company have
Just adopted the English method of giving loco
motives water, method at once novel and very
efficient The company recently constructed at
Montrose Station trough in the centre of the
track, 1900 feet in length Is inches in depth,
and Is inches wide, and caused it to be lined
with sheet iron, heavily painted This trough
is perfectly straight throughout the entire 1200
feet. A short distance to the north and east of
it is a spring which supplies it with water, the
trough holding 10000 gallons, which can be let
into it at will.
Locomotive No 43, Ned Sandford, engineer,
was next taken from the road and put in the
shop, where, in quiet manner, skilful mechanics
soon fitted her out with an ingenionsly formed
pipe, curling from the man-hole in the tender
down through the latter to position inside of
the hind trucks, where the pipe forms half
circle; at the end of which is the nozzle, which
always points the way the engine goes Fast
ened to this nozzle is an iron bar, which con-
meets with bar from point near the fremans
box, by which, when the locomotive comes to
the troagh, the nozzle or pipe can be dropped
instantaneously into the water, while the train
is running at the rate of thirty miles an hour.
The nozzle sinks to only depth of two inches
in the trough, yet even at that depth, when the
one thousand feet is passed over one thousand
six hundred and thirty-tour gallons of water
will be found in the tender
There are many improvements connected with
it, all the handiwork of Master Mechanic Will
liam Buchanan He has been at work expert
menting since the Goth of May last, and has
always been encouraged by Superintendent j.
NJ. Toucey, who has been a firm believer in the
plan from beginning to end. The first expert
ment in taking, or, as some of the engineers
say, ''jerking the water" occurred yesterday
morning The locomotive dashed over the rails
even to which is the trough at the rate of
thirty-fve miles the hour. As the nozzle struck
the water, the fluid rushed into the tender with
a roar like young Niagara, and when the
trough was left behind the fireman found his
tender full.
Every movement was crowned with success,
and the locomotive later in the afternoon was
attached to the New York special which left
Poughkeepsie at 4'15 2. NJ, which train pro-
ceeded direct to New York without stopping
anywhere, feat at once novel and giving pro-
mise of greater deeds in the future. 1t is next
proposed to locate a trough between Catskill
and Hudson, and points in the Central road, so
that, in time, trains aided by this process of
stopping nowhere for water may run through
to Chicago in twenty-four or twenty-six hours.
The Hudson River Railroad Company was the
first in this country to adopt this important in
vention, and IN fact all Others of any conse-
quence. 1t is indeed one of the greatest inven-
tions of the age, and must come into general
use on railroads.