New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-03
A NoRvHL HALLWAY INVENTION
Its Adoption by the Hudsou River Ball
road Company-A Fast TraiA Through
10 New York Without Stopping.
From the Poughkeepsie Eaglel

road COmpony-A Fast Tra1A Through
10 New York Without Stopping.
From the Poughkeepsie Eagle.l
The Hudson River Railroad Company
have just adopted the English method Of
giving locomotives water, q method at once
novel and very efficient. The company re.
Gently constructed at Montrose station, q
trough in the centre of the track, twelve
hundred feet in length, fifteen inches in
depth, and eighteen inches wide, and caused
it to be lined with sheet iron, heavily
painted. This trough is perfectly straight
throughout the entire twelve hundred feet.
A short distance to the north and east of it
is spring which supplies it with water,
the trough holding sixteen thousand gal
Ions. which can be let into it at will.
Locomotive No. 43, Ned Sanford, en-
gineer, was next taken from the road and
put in the shop, where, in quiet manner,
skillful mechanics soon fitted her out with
an ingeniously formed pipe. curling from
the man-hole in the tender down through
the latter to a 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. Fas-
tened to this nozzle is an iron bar, which
connects with bar from a point near the
tireman's box, by which, when the loco
motive comes to the trough, 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 only to depth of two inches in the
trough, yet even at that depth. when the
one thousand feet is passed over, one thou.
sand six hundred and thirty-four gallons of
water will be found in the tender.
There are many improvements connected
with it, all the handiwork OF Master Me
chanic William Buchanan. He has been at
work experimenting since the tenth OF May
last, and has always been encouraged by
Superintendent J. NJ. Toucey, who has been
firm believer in the plan from beginning
to end The first experiment in taking, or,
as some Of the engineers say, 'jerking the
water" occurred yesterday morning. The
locomotive dashed over rhe rails, even to
which is the trough, at the rate of thirty
five miles an hour. As the nozzle struck
the water, the fluid rushed into the tender
with roar like young Niagara, and when
the trough was left behind, the fireman
found his tender full.
Every movement was crowned with sue
cess, and the locomotive later in the
afternoon was attached to the New York
special which left Poughkeepsie at Ais 2.
York without stopping anywhere; feat at
once novel and giving promise of greater
deeds in future. 1t is next proposed to locate
q trough between Catskill and Hudson, and
points in the Central road, so that, in time,
trains aided by this process of stopping no.
where for water may run through to Chica-
90 in twenty-four or twenty -six hours. The
Hudson River Railroad Company was the
first in this country to adopt this important
invention, and, in fact, all others of any con.
sequence. 1t is, indeed, one of the greatest
inventions of the age, and must come into
general use on railroads.