The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-01
STORAGE CAR
To cRoss THE CONTINENT FROM NEW YORK TO SAN FRANCISCO. !
Experts Think It VIII Help soNe the Problem Of Eiectrieni :
 Railway Propulsion.

H New York Times.
 A dapper little railway car. running all by itself and with flags tlying' ap- proached the Pennsylvania Statlon III Jersav City shortly after o'clock yes to-day afternoon. nosed It's way through the maze of switches as tnouEn D 1t were familiar with the place aha c,Ietly came to a standstili on Track No. 1. It immediately became the cen- Ire of a curious throng.
 s.What is it?' was to be heard on every hand. The answer was printed on the side of the car itself. It was the Ogerita. the independent StranE electric car, which had just arrived from PhiladelnhtA on a trip in which forty-eight miles an hour was tns ". era ge speed. W. B. StranE. President ct the Strang Electric Railway Car Company. was on hand to receive those who had made the journey
 They were J. P. Verge. Assistant su- reyfntendent of Motive Power of the Pennsylvania system; B. T. Murphy ana T. w Rogers assistant engineers ih the motive power department at Al toona. Penn: Division Superintendent Lowell of the Amboy Division: Lars G. Nilsson. the designer of the car: J. A. vandegrift. who has charge ot It. ana fhA train master of the New York Di- vision of the Pennsylvania Railroad
 Those who made the Journey said that the car had shown itself to De remarkable product of mechanical skili ThAy declared that 1t was a great ad- vance toward solving the problem of electrical railway propulsion.
 The Ogerita Is scheduled to start from the west Shore Railroads terminal In w4ehawken on it's hong journey to San Francisco tomorrow. This will be the first attempt to run car by an eiec- tric motor across the continent on rails. A seIf-r ropelling motor car made by an- other company is about to begin the eastward transcontineutal journey. starting from San Francisco.
 1t is urged for the Strang car that 1t eliminates the power house and the overhead system. It is also said that it Is destined to meet all the require nnents cf an independent electric car. The system Is a. combination of a gas olina engine. a dynomo. and storage battery. The engine furnishes the p,wer to run the dynamo, and thus generates the electricity for the motors that operate the car and the storage fattery. on the one hand, receives the surplus power from the generator when the load Is light, and on the other hand furnishes the. excess power re- orired during acceieratton and on steep grades.
 This car Is mounted on high-speed trucks Trial trips have been made on the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Philadelphia and wilmington and from Philadelphia to Atlantic City. In the last two weeks many trips have been made over the branches of the Pennsylvania system, which have the steepest grades and the shortest curves. All trips were made without mishap and were considered very satisfacsory by the railroad offi- ciaig.
 aThiS car" said Mr Strang yesterday. weighs thirty-nine tons. The car it- self Is narrow for the reason that when we reach Chicago and other large Wea- tern cities we intend to switch 1t to the street car lines. It it's present shape the ear ran turn any corner."
 The motors are in the forward conn partment. while in the rear the passen- ger compartment Is fitted up as an oh servation car. It is finished and up- hoIstered in a manner which makes il a fine example Of the car builders art It is fitted in front with a strong pilot like that attached to the ordinary To- comotive and has a powerful search light. Other cnrs designed on the same lines. but much larger, are In course of construction. They will have smok- ing and passenger compartments,
 Four-tenthE of a gallon of gasoline ii kNuttlEEltI LO tuC Cet OnC ifAtAG- I hs ignition Is of high tension. or 'jumT spark type.
 The ogerita will go to Buffalo over the West Shore line. From Buffalo ii will proceed by the Lake Shore route to Chicago. Thence 1t will travel tc St. Louis over the Chicago and Alton Railroad. It will run over the Rock Is- land system to Fl Paso, and from Fl Faso to San Francisco over the South ern Pacific MT StranE will make the journey and will have for his guests railroad of1cials of the different lines traversed.
 Several locomotive engineers of the Pennsylvania and West Shore lines saw the car yesterday. They had but ont opinion Of the future of the system cm. bodied in the Ogerita-
 You've got us skinned a mi1e." they said.