Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-06
AN IMPORTANT COMBINE.
Baldwin Locomotive and Vest inghouse Companies Allied.
TO RUN TRAINS BY TESLA MOTOR.

Expect to Operate an Electric Railroad on
 Which Trains VIII Make One Hundred
 and Fifty Miles an Hour-Experiments
 Have Already Been Successfully Made.
 PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 6.-Business cir cles were startled here by the announce ment of the consolidation of the Baldwin locomotive works and the Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing company.
 The name of the new company has not been determined, and the officials of the Baldwin company decline to state whether or not it will be made a stock company. Though by the agreement the two com panies will hereafter work as one, yet both plants will be retained as they are at pres ent, extensions being made as the busi- ness warrants.
 The Baldwin locomotive works wore founded by Matthias w. Baldwin, who, April 25, 1881, put his first miniature To- comotive in motion and then built the To- comotive Old Ironsides, which made its first trip on the Germantown road Nov. 25, 1S32. They now cover over If acres of ground, and there are 1900 men en- ployed. The capital of the firm, the enter prise never having been incorporated, is placed at $5, 900, 900.
 The Westinghouse Electric Manufactur- ing company is incorporated, having its plant in Pittsburg. Its capital is SIG, ,000, = 900, and its last statement showed its as- sets at $14, 7s2, 315. Brayton Ives is chair man of its board of directors, and George Westinghouse, .Jr., is president of the company. For Electric Railway Development. PITTsBURG, Aug. CIV. D. Updegraff, private secretary to George Westinghouse, Jr., in explaining the scope of utilization of interests of the Westinghouse Electric company and the Baldwin Locomotive | company, said:
 "The combination is to develop the possibilities of the Tesla motor as applied to the railway service. They intend to make it possible to run from New York to Pittsburg in three hours. With the Tesla motor we are assured power to draw car at the rate of 150 miles an hour or more.
 "The only thing now is to get cars and | car wheels that will stand the strain of l travelling at that rate of speed. The Bald win people assure us that this can be done. We now have the system working at our l plant at East Pittsburg, the only trouble | being to get a car that will remain on the | track.
 "We believe that with this union of in- terests we will be in operation between Pittsburg and New York. The present railway tracks cannot be used. We want air lines. The cars will be very light and on the principle of airships. We can run them on trestle work that would not bear the weight of a Pullman coach. We in
 tend to cross the mountains by lifts. It is only intended to use the lines for
 passengers, mail and express.
 l "There will be no engines, each car be l ing provided with it's own motor. A car
 will not stop until it reaches its point oi destination. We have also perfected a
 block system which makes it impossible
 for two trains to run on the same block l As soon as a train gets on a block on which
 there is already train the power for the
 last one entering is shut off. The inter
 ests of the two corporations are not to be
 combined for anything beyond the dcvel
 opmcnt of the railway feature"