Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-03-16
THE RAILROAD WORLD.
Roads Taking to the Use of the Dynamo
for Illuminating Purposes.

1t is given oub, by the Courier
Journal that all The roads running
out of Louisville will soon threw
away the lamp and will use in IFS
place, for Illuminating purposes,
electricity. The Chesapeake q Ohio
has already contracted to have their
trains running out of Louisville
equipped with dynamos, and the
Pennsylvania and the Louisville and
Nashville companies are negotiating
for electric lights. 1t is probable
that both OF these systems will be
equipped by the opening of the
Worlds Fair.
1t is said that the engines now
used on the G. & O. are -the largest
that run into Washington City.
They are not only used, says the
Courier Journal, to draw immense
trains, but also to provide steam for
heating the train and for runninz
the dynamo which supplies the train
with light. The cars used on the q.
& O. special through trains weigh
over 105, 900 pounds. They are the
heaviest cars in the world. In the
construction of these cars is a false
floor, which,is filled with lead and
iron which serve as ballast. The
ordinary weight of railroad cars is
from 40, 900 to 10000 pounds, 10000
pounds being the average weight oil
a day coach. The trains that will be
running out OF Louisville within the
next three months will be equal tc
those in any part of the globe.
Says the Courier Journal: 1.-THE
Louisville and Nashville employees
are undergoing a novel form OF in
struction in the handling of trains
equipped with the Westinghouse air
brake. This company is taking
every precaution to prevent accidents
, and thereby save life by having it
) men thoroughly drilled in the art o
, handling trains and manipulating
signals.
f "The instruction is being given Il
+ the men in what is known as tn
Westinghouse instruction car. 1t i
! the first of the kind yet lent out, ant
, if its use is all that its builders claiu
for it, it will be greet benefactioi
, to the great mass of peov lie VIII
spend a part of their lives every yea
on the road. 1t is now on its frs
trip over the Louisville and Nash
9 Vile system.
J "The car is on its way here, ant
5 when it arrives it will remain tire
. weeks while instruction is given t
. the engineers, firemen, conductor
: and brakemen of the Louisville AM
s Nashville Company.
} "The car is sixty five feet long, an
Q weighs 100000 pounds. The interio
e is divided into two distinct apart
t ments. At one end is the Office an
t sleeping rooms, filled with chairs
: desks and Pullman berths. The re
s mainder is the machinery and ir
struction room.
e "The room contains twelve
d horse power Westinghouse boiler,
twenty five incandescent light dyns
mo, a Westinghouse pump, an all
G pump and double row Of cylindt
y air brakes, thirty in number, repr'
It senting a train of thirty freight car
l. There are also air.signal9 and set
r. pressure gauges, all in complet
t. working order, besides models
,, other apparatus.
Is "The instructing of each class
lie men lasts four hours. The examin
y ton is very strict, correctness on te
g points being considered perfec
p Those getting only four points al
le rejected from the service, and tho'
is who make between four and te
h. ,,,.x, oop,o nm for re.axaminatiOnO