Omaha daily bee., 1909-11-07

- East rivers to the new ter
minal in Manhattan arrived in the
yards at Long Island city last wook.
and will soon be put to the test of the
trial runs. This first machine designated
No. s,s9s. weights $4,000 pounds, and there
are twenty-three more just like It now
under construction. Their work will be to
take a thousand trains a day in and out
OF New Yor.
Each locomotive is capable OF 1000 horse
power. about triple that Of a big freight
locomotive. and could pull a heavy freight
train at the rate OF sixty miles an hour.
Some Of the statistics Of the members
are: Weight. 166 tons; weight of electri-
cal parts, GO tons; total horse power, 1000;
maximum draw bar pull. $1,000 pounds;
maximum speed under load, sixty to
seventy miles per hour; diameter OF drive
wheels, sixty-eight inches; diameter OF
truck wheels, thlrty-slx inches; weight on
drivers fourteen tons; mechanical shock
without injury. 10000 pounds; length over
all, slxty-five feet; wheel base, fifty-six
feet.
In spite OF its great power and size
the operation Of the locomotive will be by
the simplest and easiest of methods. None
Of the main power passes through the
controller, which is nothing more than q
switch similar to a t~elegrRphers key oper-
ated by an electric-pneumAtlo continuance.
and by the pressure of a finger the engineer
can get as much power as is used by 3
hundred trolley cars.
The electric locomotive OF the new Penn
~sylvania type is built in two sections,
which look like great steel cabins on
wheels. There is an operating outfit In
each end, so that no turning Is necessary
at the end OF a run. The sections are per-
manently coupled back to back by d dis
tinctiye arrangement OF Westinghouse fric-
ton draft gear and levers, so that the
leading section effeetually pilots the rear
one.i This obviates all necessity OF turn
ing the engine, as It runs equally we'll In
either direction, and all manipulating levers
are duplicated In a section. A decided
Improvement in the Pennsylvania" typs
is the use OF a single motor for two pairs
OF drivers and the benefits secured by It's
position. The motor is located high up from
the roadbed, secure from snow. dirt and
water, and space limitations are largely
removed. In its design IL possesses cleo
trical features never before secured on az
electric locomotive. The single motor
weighs, without gear 5000 pounds. and il
weight and power II is the largest railway
motor ever constructed. 1t projects int
the cab and In fact fills a large part Of il
The main control apparatus is In a ulk
head sort of arrangement centrally located
so that there are ample passageways along
the sides. At one end IS located the cleo
trically driven air compressor for operating
the a~irbrakes. In the operating end OF tn
locomotive there Is a Westinghouse brak
valve for high speed brake operation. an,
also the engineers controller, by whiel
all electrical manipulation Is secured
These correspond TO the throttle and re
verse lever on a steam locomotive. Tn
controller Is really a switch operated b.
: eieetro-pneumatic means. With a leve
which can be moved with one finger tn
1 engineer can admit to the locomotive
! current equal TO that available in a hundre
; trolley cars. The electric supply viii b
p secured from an electric conductor. or thlr
RAN. by four contract shoes IN each loco
motive. AT some points where the Erea
r number OF track switches win not permi
, this. power win be secured from an oveE