Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-06

Miles an Hour or Better.
Philadelphia, August 5.-The sue
cessful use Of electricity as motive
power on steam, roads has led the Bald
win locomotive works and the West
inghouse Electric and Manufacturing
Company to effect a combination. Con-
ferences have been going on between
the two companies for the past two or
three months, which have resulted in
an agreement by which they will here
after work together in the develop
ment of apparatus for the operation OF
steam railroads by electricity.
1t is expected that the union of thesa
TWO companies will result in the early
Introduction of improved forms of cleo
tric motors for standard railroads.
The name OF the new company has
not been determined and the officials
of the Bsidwin Company decline to
| state whether or not it will be made
stock company, though by agreement
the TWO companies Will hereafter work
as one. yet the plants will be retained
as present, extensions being made -
! the business warrants.
There will be a division of the work,
the Balwin Company taking up such as
| is suitable 10 their facilities, while the
| electrical work will be done by tho
Westinghouse Company. A member
| Of he big locomotive firm, in speaking
of consolidation, this afternoon, said:
I'VE have been seriously discussing
! the matter ever since he latter part OF
April, and in view OF improyemcuta
which we jointly consider the elecG4cal
developments Of the railways to have
| been. we thought it TO our advantage Ia
combine our interests, and in further
ance of that policy, have concluded
contracts which make a practical part
| nership and we are now prepared 10
construct electric railways locomo-
tiyes and everything that pertains 10
electrical operations oil railroads.
we have contracted with an eminent
| engineer. David L. Barns, of Chicago,
and expect to push business for all there
is,in it. We hope to give work 10 mOrel
men than we now employ, as we antics
pate q greater volume OF work than
C,CI before"
The Baldwin locomotive works cover
fourteen acres OF ground and the capac-
ity, in full working time. ds one loco
motive in each eight hours. There are
1900 men employed.
The Westinghouse Electric Manufact~
uring Company is incorporated, having
its plant at Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, Pa, August 5.-W. d. Up
degraif, private secretary to George
| Westinghouse, Jr., in explaining to-
| night the scope OF the affiiation OF in
terests of the Westinghouse Electric
Company and the Baldwin Locomotive
Company, said:
THE combination is to develop the
! possibilities of the Tesla motor as ap-
piled to the railway service. We in
tend to make il possible to ride from
New York to PittsbuPg in three hours.
| With the Tesla motor we are assured
power to draw car at the 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
| Uudl IdLt u eptcu. ne iDdluNlu people
assure us that this can be done. We
now have the system working at our
plant at East Pittsburg, the only trou-
bic being to get a car that will remain
on the track.
we believe that with this union of
| interests we will be able to perfect the
electric railway system, and | can as
sure YOU that by he year 1900, or pos
sbly sooner, the line viii be in opera
ton 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 air ships. We can run them on tres
tie work that would not bear the weight
Of a Pullman coach We intend TO
cross the mountain by lifts.
1T is only intended 10 use the lines
for passengers. mail and expresses
! trains There viii he no engines, each
car being provided with its own motor.
We have also perfected block system
which makes il impossible for two
trains to run in the same block. AS
soon as train gets on a block on
which there is already a train, the pow
er for the last one entering IS shut off.
j The interests of the two corporations
are not 10 be combined for anything be-
yond the development Of the railway
feature"