The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-14
NINETY MILI4s AN HOUR.

A Locomotive UUdsr Construction On II
HswPIan-DrlvloG WhculS HsSt an Other
Wheels That Ride tho Rail.
NcV York World
Ther4 Is now being built at tho Bald,
win Locomotive works, in Philadelphia,
an ordinary locomotive with driving
wheels Of i've feet In diameter, which
1t 10 said, will Rs aoon as completed On
about four wooka) draw train OF cars
from Philadelphia to thia city in an
hour, or ust about One.hRlt the time
now required by the colossal and costly
engines OF the Pennsylvania road.
This claim IL not made by the Bald
wins. They have nothing to say on tue
subject. Thoy arc simply building the
locomotive Tor private parties and are
10 TGCaIyG their regular price Of $4,000
for it, When Il Ia completed their part
In tho matter 10 ended. Tho gentleman
who ia paying for the locomotive is ",
J, Holman. oil Minneapolis. an elIBrly
inventor, who has been IN the railroad
business all his lie aud who has now
invented something which. 1t IL claimed,
will completely reyoIutionIze railroSd'
Ing.
1t Ia not pretended that the ordinary
$4,000 locomotive which the Baldwlns
are building would, ii set upon any
miles an hour. Tho locomotive ia not,
however, to DO set on the rails as on.
glnes generally arc. When It Ia com,
pleted It 10 to DO placed on what are
known as Che Holman irICtion.geared
trucks, which will raise 1t thirty inches
above tho surface Of the rails 1t will
be just Ike any other locomotive exCep.
that each OF its driving wheels viii
r0st upon and between two smaller
wheels, which IN turn will rest upon
and between three other wheels that
finally rest on the rails. The instant
the drivers OF the locomotive begin TO
turn they necessarily through friction
give an opposite Rotary motion TO the
small wheels upon which they bear, and
these small wheels just rs necessarily
give n forward rotary motion TO the
third set OF wheels upon which they arc
bearing. Tho natural aud inevitable 70,
suit IL that Que revolution Of tho loco
motives drivrg's wheels, by this mui.
tipicltY OF wheels in pyramid form,
carries the locomotive forward just
twice Us far as single revolution OF the
driving wheels II they DO on the rails
themselves. In other words. the speed
Of the engine, whatever that speed
might be on the rails themselves, is ex.
actly doubled by the use OF this newly
invented truck.
In an experiment which was nNte
with an ordinary locomotive thus
mounted in Minnesota on q branch OF
the Northern Pacific railroad recently Il
speed Of eighty miles was said to have
been easily attained. Tho invention
hns been kept quiet, it being ;hs rur.
pose Of those interested to say nothing
about It until its practical utility was
demonstrated by n run from PhilRde.
phia to New York within an hours
lime. That, it Is believed by the In.
vontor, will be the shortest aud quick,
est way oil letting the world know that
now marvel III mechanics has come
into existence
In addition to tho increase Of speed
a,talnable, this new invention will, 1t Ia
claimed, save millions Of dollars
through tho diminished wOnt aud tear
upon tho rails, Tor tho weight Of loComo.
tiyes will then DO further distributed
along the track, and at no point OF any
rail will there DO n pressure more than
one.third as great as Is now oIerted by
tho driving wheels.