The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1904-10-28
ALq0!NISM ECLlPSED.
Run Of a5oo MILES without Water,
Fire Smoke or cinders,

The application of the use of crude
oil in locomotives engines, now con-
fined TO the railroads operating di'
rectly through the great oil fields OF
Louisiana. Texas and California, is
likely TO spread over the entire south
and railroads using coal burners in
in Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee
Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Northiand
South Carolina, and the eastern and
seaboard states, bid fair to become
users of oil for fuel for the first time
in railroad history, and cause revo-
luton in the method, cost and novel
ty of railroad operation in the depart
ment of motive power.
The direct cause of this new field
for the use :of fuel oil is due to the
announcement just made that loco
tive engine is being built, which can
operate for a distance of several thou
sand miles..without renewing oil and
wholly without fire, water, smoke
or cinders," and the "steamless loco
motive'' is a real thing of the near
future.
The newsEof this novel feature of
locomotive construction was received
in New Orleans by leading railroad
operative, coupled with the announce
ment that the Southern Pacific rail-
road has contracted for one of the
'steamless locomotives of the Die
sci type of enginesIand the blue prints
of the Hoadley-Knight patent are
now in the hands of the mechanics.
The American Locomotive Works of
Schenectady, n. Y, are building the
trucks and frame; the Corliss Engine
Works of Providence, r. l., owned
by the International Power company
are building the Diesel engine equip
ment and theIGeneral Electric Com
pany are building the electrical parts.
Heretofore Louisiana, Texas and
Cal fornia have enjoyed a monopoly
of oil burning engines, due to the
fact that crude oil was Immediately
accessible, but the newly designed
locomotives is very much like the
camel of the desert, as it requires but
one stock of fuel to last for days.
This marvellous result, it is claimed,
is due to the perfect internal COM
bustion" and the conservation of
energy. This means that there is no
loss of power, as now, by the escape
of steam, smoke and other elements
of.energy. The tendency in mechan-
ical construction has been along these
lines for several years. one of the
most pronounced results being the
use of oil burning locomotives be-
tween New Orleans and San Francis
co, and though this has been a strik-
ing advancement in modern railroad
travel, these engines still are lacking
perfection. 1t was Joseph H. Hoad-
ley, "Hoadley of international power
fame" as his enimies call him, who
is the inventor of the new railroad
wonder.
Many forms of the Diesel engine
are now in use, but the new locomo-
tive is the most advanced application
of the principle to railroad work that
has ever been brought out. When it
is remembered that no change in the
basic principle of locomotive con-
struction has ever been made, the i'm
portance of the Hoadley locomotive
and the great interest railroad men
generally are taking in it, become
easily understandable.
The first locomotive thus construct
ed is expected to carry sufficient
crude oil for run, without a single
stop of 2500 miles, and that too with |
out smoke, without fire, without
cinders and without water.
WALTER PARKER.