The morning times., 1896-08-16
on RAILWAYS
Used Very Successfully in
Western Pennsylvania.
ONE OF THE LATEST
1t Is s00-Horsepower and Can Be
Operated With or Without the
Trolley Attachment.

| and familiar factor that any article treat
| ing thereupou would be trite and uninter-
| esting The omnibus, horse car, cable
car, and, fiuaIiy, the trolley, have fol-
lowed each other as a regular sequence
of mans ingenuity, each in turn giving US
better streets and finer and more perma-
| neDt service. The trolley system first at
| tracted attention from its low cost, ease
| or construction, and absolute feasibility for
| shOrt-line service, and observation soon
showed Its adaptabiiity for a line If
miles as well as loop OF squares.
| Naturally, with suh field, practi-
| caily unlimited, Certain large stimulus
was Offered TO every electrical inventor
| and constructor, and We find decided i'm
| provements Ia transmission, motor con-
struction. applied power, and traction.
Immediately the public thought that they
| saw a total replacement OF steam in every
direction for railroad work, aud the prophe-
cies that were made were for the most
part wild and chimericaL
1t Is a long way off to the entire equip
ment OF a trunk line, as the distances and
through service are SO complicated and
exacting as to SO far preclude the electric
traction as an absolute and single factor.
There are, however, numerous short
lines OF steam railway branching off from
stations on the main stem to small and
comparatively unimportant places. In
many cases these are much shorter than
the regular trolley lines Of any city, and
inquiry was soon made and experiments
iDaugurated looking to the establishments
OF a service that should be entirely elec-
trical, as applied TO these smaller feeders.
In many cases the freight hauled over the
short roads was the principal traffic, and
il became apparent that the car that would
answer every purpose for passenger trans
portation was in NO way fitted for other
work.
The motor necessary should tie one that
was separate; that could be attached at
will TO any ordinary train OF loaded freight
ers, that should be powerful enough to re-
place a large steam locomotive; that
should be Dearly. il not quite, under ab-
olute control Large corporations are
naturally jealous OF each other, and the
different railroad equipment manufactur-
ers throughout the world had tired their
hands, but without success
The Baldwin people joined hands with the
Westinghouse Company, and the problem SO
often talked Of was in fair shape for so,u-
ton A company that has ma lie study of
tine methods of electrical street railway
equipment was, when Joined to the master
builders Of the locomotive, ready to conquer
almost any puzzle in electro-meciian
and the joint products of the two associa-
tions are now in satisfactory running order
and action. Naturally the car construction
proper was done in this city. and after the
apparatus was added at Pittsburg. Moreor
less secrecy has been observed in the pre-
lininary plans, both Companies having de-
cided repugnance to make any facts public
that are not backed by sober and Intelligent
demonstration. To-Day the electrical method
of traction for heavy loads is an assured
body and trucks were in shape the electrical
success, and Of the several pieces of ma
chlnery constructed and under construction
we can safely deal with two as trnical
LOOKS LIKE A DUMMY
The two referred to were constructed in
Philadelphia, and are respectively 500 and
400 horsepower, being des gned for totally
dssimilar purposes. The largest is d heavy,
well-built aud strcngiy-brace car, looking
more like the oid-fashioned dummy en-
glue that formerly ran betwec Philadel-
phia and Frankfurd. The frame is ofheavy
channel iron, bolted together in the most
seou'e anu W anu to'eieu
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being 50 arranged tha. by simpIeunfasten-
ing Of the piuions and bolts they can be
removed independently, without disturb
ing the other parts OF the mechanism. The
trucks are OF steel AMI allow diameter
OF forty-two inches TO each wheel. The con-
sefuc'ioh Oh ehe car ooaS oitiers ou' htlie
from the ordihary' having SIX wiho'ows ana
a"upie doofs On eaeh s'ae. Lieht Ireighe
or nasgase cah pe carr'eu' tle eoh'Ioier
or brake being placed IN the PLATFORM
The motors are of the resular westing-
house pattern, Geared TO the axle In the
same way and by the same method In vogue
on our city street railways, the only differ
Philadelphia Times- Strength and sohdity
have been taken into account at every step,
and the results averypoweriui ana heavy
car, the weight oeinS l2o'ooo pounds, di-
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