The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-07
NOTESOFTHE RAIL WAYS
Canadian Pacihc's Ticket For
Trip Around the World.
TEST OF GASOLINE ELECTRIC OAR

Fifty Miles an Hour Made In Run
From schenectady, N. Y, to Sara
toxa-Horseshoe Curve ON Pennsyl-
vania Road to Be Wiped Out.
Unique Rule ON the Great Northern.
American Locomotives Ahead.
A new ticket in the form Of a little
yellow card about as big as an annual
pass is issued by the Canadian Pacific
railway and entities the holder to go
round the world upon the company's
rail and steamship lines, says the Chi
caga Tribune. The ticket reads from
Montreal, Canada, to Montreal, Can
ada" and, except for the little card
local tickets or the usual form Of COM
muta ton ticket issued by the railroads,
it is the smallest ticket ever issued.
To carry the ordinary ticket sold by
the railroads for trip across the Unit
ed States from coast to coast the trav-
eler needs a special satchel. The Ca
nadian Pacific is the only railroad
which has it's rails stretching from
ocean to ocean with its own steamship
lines c1rcling the remaining part Of the
globe The first Of these new tickets
was isaued to Fred Shaughnessy. son
Of Sir Thomas G. Shaughnessy, pres
ident of the road.
The route taken by the bearer Of
one Of these tickets Is from Montreal
to st. johns, N. B., via the Canadian
Pacific railway, thence to Liverpool.
England, by the Canadian Pacific-At.
lantic steamship line. From Liverpool
the traveller goes on board the Mont
eagle, a Canadian Pacific boat, which
sails for Hongkong by way Of the Cape
Of Good Hope, stopping at Cape Town
and Singapore. From Hongkong the
bearer Of the ticket takes the Empress
line steamers for Vancouver, stopping
at Yokohama. and from Vancouver
back to Montreal over the lines of the
railway company.
The new gasoline electric car for
nectady, N. Y. before prominent off,
GEES Of the Delaware and Hudson and
New York Central railroad companies
and the General Electric and American
Locomotive companies, says the New
York Times.
The car ran to Saratoga and back to
Schenectady with the greatest ease.
making a maximum speed Of about
nfty miles an hour with little noise.
The railroad engineers on board said
that steam power for short lines will
soon be thing Of the past.
In mechanism the new car is like an
automobile and trolley car combined.
The propelling force comes primarily
from a gasoline engine. but electricity
actually turns the wheels. Underneath
the cars are motors like those on SUBJ
way cars, supplied with current from
the gasoline engine. Outside the car
looks like the regular passenger coach
with baggage apartment. There is q
complete air brake system. The car Is
heated by hot water, the piping for
which forms part Of the system for
radiating heat from the water used in
cooling the gas engine cylinders. In
Addition to the engine and baggage
rooms there are smoking, toilet ano
regular passenge, compartments. The
Gar is lighted by electricity. There art
seats for forty passengers.
The famous horseshoe curve on the
Pennsylvania Is to be eliminated, says
a Pittsburg special to the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. Two methods are pro
posed, and four sets Of plans have
been prepared. Two plans are for tun-
nels through the Allegheny mountains.
one nine miles and the other eleven
miles long Other plans are new routes
across the mountains, one 80 and the
other 1O5 miles long. The nine mile
tunnel will probably be adopted. The
tunnel would enter the mountain at or
near Kittanning Point and emerge be
tween Cresson and Lilly. 1t will &C.
commodate four tracks and will DO
ventilated with shafts reaching the
crests of the mountains. All opera.
tons through it will be by electric
power. The cost of the tunnel and
making connections with the main line