St. Paul daily globe., 1895-08-06
BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS
AND WESTINGHOUSE COM-
PANY UNITED.
MARCH OF IMPROVEMENT.
INCREASING USE OF ELECTRIC-
ITY AS a SUBSTITUTE FOE
STEAM POWER,
\ SIGNIFICANT CONSOLIDATION,
The New Company Anticipating
ENtraordinnry Development
in the Electric World.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 5.-The
successful use of electricity as a
motive power on steam roads has led
the Baldwin Locomotive Works and
the Westinghouse Electric Manu-
featuring company to effect a COM
bination. Conferences have been go
ing on between the two companies
for the past two or three months,
which have resulted in an agreement
by which they will hereafter work
together in the development of ap-
paratus for the operation of rail-
roads by electricity. The name of
the new company has not been de-
termined, and the officials of the
Baldwin company decline to state
whether or not it will be made a
stock company, though by the agree
ment the two companies will here
after work as one, and both plants
will be retained as they are at pres
ent, extension being made as the
business warrants. There will be a
division of the work, the Baldwin
company taking up such as is suit
able to their facilities. The electrical
work will be done by the Westing-
house company. A member of the
big locomotive firm, in speaking of
the consolidation this afternoon,
said: I'VE have been seriously dis
cusslng the matter ever since the
latter part of April, and, in view of
the improvements which we Jointly
considered the electrical develop
ment for railways to have been. we
thought it to our advantage to COM
blne our interests, and in further
ance of that policy have concluded
contracts which make a practical
partnership, and we are now pre-
pared to construct electric railways,
locomotives, and everything that
pertains to electrical operations of
railroads. We have contracts with
an eminent engineer, David Barnes,
of Chicago, and expect to push this
for all there is in it. We hope to
give work TO more men than we now
employ, as we anticipate a greater
volume of work than ever before"
The Baldwin Locomotive Works
cover fourteen acres of ground, and
the capacity, on full working time,
is one locomotive in each eight hours.
There are 4,900 men employed. The
Westinghouse Electric Manufacture
ing company is Incorporated, having
it's plant at Pittsburg.
AT LIGHTNING SPEED.
: PITTSBURG, Pa, Aug. 5.-W. D.
Updegraff, private secretary to George
Westinghouse Jr., in explaining the
scope of affiliation of interests of the
Westinghouse Electric company and
the Baldwin Locomotive company.
said: ''The combination is to de-
velop the possibilities of the Tesla mo-
tor as applied to the railway service.
We intend to make it possible to ride
from New York to Pittsburg in three
hours With the Tesla motor we are
assured power 20 draw a car at a rate
of $50 miles an hour or more. The only
thing now is TO get cars and car
wheels that will stand the strain of
travelling at that rate of speed. The
Baldwin people assure US that this
can be done. We now have the system
working at our plant at East Pitts
burg, the only trouble being TO get a
car that will remain on the rack We
believe that with this union of inter-
ests we will be able to perfect the
electric railway system. and L can as
sure you that by the year 1900, or
possibly sooner, the line will be in op-
Grafton between Pittsburg and New
York. The present railway tracks cam
not be used. We want air lines The
cars will be very light and on the
principle of air lines. We can run
then en- trestje work that would not
bear the weight of a Pullman coach.
We intend to cross the mountains by
lifts. 1t is only intended to use the
lines for passengers, rnail and express
trains. There will De no engines, each
car being provided with it's own motor.
A car will not stop until it reaches it's
point of destination. We have also
perfected a block system which makes
it impossible for two trains to run on
the same block. AS soon as a train
gets on a block on which there is
already a train, the power for the
last ono. entering it is shut off. Tke
interests of the two corporations are
not to be combined for anything be-
yond the development of the railway
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