Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-08-06
BAKER STEAMED RS
MAKE A SUCCESS
ON THE RAILWAY
Special Model Is Designed
for Use on Tourist Lines;
New Mexico People Are
Interested.

the BAKER steamer, IN Whlcn many
people of New Mexico are inter
,ested, appeared in a recent issue
of the Pueblo Start Journal:
The possibilities for the Baker
Steamer are increasing fast. In the
plant Of the Baker Steam Motor
Car Manufacturing company on
the Canon City highway is being
nursed an industry which will put
Pueblo on the automobile map.
The heads of five hundred diff
ferent short line railroads are now
interested in the Baker Steamer as
the ideal thing for tourist business
on their lines.
1t can hardly be realized that
there are approximately 500 shor'
line railroads in America. OF the
500, 500 are members of the
American Short Line Railroad as
ISOLATION with headquarters in
Washington. Officials of this or
ganization have become interested
in the Baker Steamer and have
been in Pueblo in this connection.
Whenever any short line in the
organization needs a new locomo-
| tive, the association purchases it
because they can obtain neat re-
duction. The association has real
lied that the time is ripe for light
er equipment on their short lines.
They state that they are certain
that the Baker Steamer is what
they are looking for.
Frank p. Robinson and Ben Is
Cain, representing the Short Iiro
association, will arrive in Pueblo ir
August to inspect the product now
ready.
BY providing a Baker Steamer
truck with special equipment, n
railroad car has been produced
which has wheels to operate on
rails. Although several minor ad~
justments are necessary, the ma
chine is a success. The officers
expect to have it completed in
every detail when the interested
railroad men arrive.
Can Pull Freight
The machine has the appearance
of a large truck, exceptionally
long. Space for q number Of seals
is provided. In most instances Il
will be used for carrying passen-
gers for sight seeing purposes. 1t
will, however, develop power
enough to pull a heavily laden
freight car over the tracks at a
speed of 40 miles an hour.
The machine is being tried out
and experimental with almost
every evening. The Colorado-Kan-
sas railroad line to Stone City is
being used when no trains are on
the track. A speed of As miles an
hour has been developed.
Several nights ago a party of in
terested persons was privileged to
take a ride in the newly perfected
car. 1t was engineered by C. A.
Orr, a veteran mechanic of high
ability, who is uperintendent OF
the Baker factory.
The car moved over the rails as
we'll as any apparatus ever adopted
for that purpose. Several hundred
pounds of scrap iron were loaded
on the rear end of the car to keep
the car from jumping the track.
The farmers and cattlemen
along the line of the railroad
looked upon the car much as the
Indians did Columbus, but they ac-
cepted the car more readily than
did the Indians accept Columbus
They realized that on that track,
rapid stride was being made in the
advancement of the Baker steam
boiler in the world of success.
Resembles Rail Ride
Il L. oil NN
features of a train ride, with the
exception of the cinders falling
into the passengers eyes and the
roaring of the engine. AS for
speed, it seemed to have an I'M
limited amount. Rabbits at the
side OF the right of-way Jumped
along rapidly enough, but they
seemed as snails to the speeding
car. Had the speed been increased
without additional weight, the ma
chine would have jumped along
about like a iack-rabbit for short
distance, then crashed into the
ditch.
One Of the other inventions de
veloped in the Baker Steamer plant
in the past two years Is the Baker
automatic house heating burner
invented by C. A. Orr. 1t is now
being placed on the market with
an absolute guarantee. To date
eight have been sold to Puebloans,
The burners are installed in any
coal burning furnace without any
alterations. The equipment, eX"
cepting the actual burner, remains
on the exterior of the furnace.
The burner Is purely automatic
and requires no attention. A tenn
perature regulator is installed on
the main floor. 1t is set at any de-
sired temperature. When the tenn
perature reaches the degree fol
which the regulator is adjusted,
the fire is automatically turned
off. When the temperature drops
half degree, the spark pug ig-
mites the fuel and in this manner
the heat varies only half a degree
until the button is pushed to turn
an ~. \, ,ta.1,