The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-24
|G. N. MOTOR CAR
FOR TONKA RUNS
STEAM TO COMPETE WITH TRoI,
LEY ON EQUAL TERMS.
transportation Problem Of Short Lines.
Is Solved and the Use Of Trains Oh
Waited - Wayzata improvements
Planned by the Great Northern, Too.

The Great Northern road has per
fected steam motorcar which will
solve the Lake Minnetonka transporta-
ton problem and. will place the com
paany in a position to compete for lake
business on even terms with the street
railway company. The car arrived yes
terdaY from Aurora, Ill, where it has
supervision of Max Toltz, consulting en-
gineer. It has been subjected to in
spection by James J. Hill and other
high officials of the Great Northern,
and pronounced practically perfect.
Three months ago a high traffice Of
ticer of the Great Northern, stated to
The ournal that the motor car
short line railroad service: At that
time Mr.. Toltz had already. received
orders to start work on the motor car.
It is not denied today by high officials
of the road that the motor car will be
applied in the lake transportation serv-
ice and that the Great Northern road
will be able soon to give the north
better service than it has heretofore
afforded by the regular steam trains.
Unlike Other Cars.
The Great Northern car is unlike any
other in the United States. It is not
gasolene car, nor a gasolene- electric
car, types in use by other lines, but it
is steam motor car with oil burner.
On the run to st. Paul speed OF forty
| the Specifications called for only thirty
five. The car can be operated more
| cheaply than train, for 1t takes only
| one. man to operate it, and no brake
| man Is necessary.
| The car looks like a railroad coach. It
is seventy-five feet long with baggage
space Of Sxl2 feet, and passenger
The motor has an upright boiler, with
superheater. It is heated with fuel
oil, but the boiler can be fixed for the
consumption of coal as we'll. There is
capacity for $50 gallons. Of water and
100 gallons Of oil, sufficient for a RUN
/ of forty or fifty miles. -, ..~-.. y ...-.
The engine is 200 horsepower and
one attached to the motor. The driv.
ers are fortytwo inches in diameter
Walchaert valve gear. This type Of
gear has been used in Germany for for
ty-fve years.
Improving Wayzata.
Further improvements for the village
Of Wayzata are contemplated by the
Great Northern railway, which has al
ready done much for the town in the
present season. The railroad has sub
mitted proposition for identifying the
lake shore between it's fine new station
and the bay toward Ferndale. It pro
poses to move the Moore boatworks
some distance up shore from their pres
ent site, furnishing an equally goot
site and doing the work. itself. A piece
Of low, swampy ground Is to be filled
and permission is asked to make {
slight change in the Ferndale road
The land secured by the removal of TIT
boatworks will be beautifed. ~ h
Wayzata has been almost off the NAL
for number Of years until this sea
son. The. Wayzata and Ferndale sta
tions have been combined and an al
: ttstic station, in half timbered Engisl
style, erected. The improvements tina
are now proposed will necessitate con
siderably outlay and will be Of grea
: value to the village.