The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-08

Railroading is going modern. With the help of the New Deal, the New York, New Haven and Hart ford Railroad company is putting into service the first of fifty new passenger coaches being built with a loan of $2,000,000 made by the Public Works Administration to put men to worfi. Many thousands of men have been called back to work by loans for building stream lined trains, new locomotives, new freight cars and making other i'm provements.
 A special trial run will be made today of train consisting of 8 baggage car, diner, and four of these beautiful new stream-lined cars which are being built for the road at the shops of the Pullman Bradley company at Worcester. Especial interest is attached to this trial run because of the fact that the Union Pacific's stream lined train on it's recent exhibition trip over the New Haven and other roads, reached speed of 87 miles an hour on a short stretch between Providence and Boston, and while the motive power for the New
 Haven's strea lined special to- day will be one of the big 1300's which regularly hauls the New Ha- ven's through trains between New
 Haven and Boston, it is. expected that something in the nature of a speed test may be attempted, and 1t is possible that new record may be made on the run.
 Newspaper Men Guests
 Aboard the special train will be a large group of interested rail-
 road officials and newspaper men.
 Luncheon will be served on the dining car, and stops will be made at New London, Westerly and Providence. The train will leave New Haven at 11:00 a. m., New London at 12:00, Westerly at 12:25, due Providence at 1:10, p. ih., and
 leave Providence at 1:15. No def mite time has been set for arrival at Boston.
 At the conclusion of the special
 run, two of the new coaches are to be sent to Washington, D. C.,
 for exhibition there, and the other
 two will become part of a Pro
 gress Special" an exhibition train which will tour the New Haven system, dem onstrating the forward equipment development, from the acetylene-lighted wooden coaches of the gay nineties to the stream lined cars of today, gleamingly new from the car shops. Exhibition
 stops will be made, following a
 full day on display at South Sta-
 tion in Boston, at Providence, New
 London, New Haven, New York,
 Bridgeport, Waterbury, Hartford,
 and Springfield. The train will
 leave Boston at S:30 Tuesday
 morning.
 Contrast Arranged
 Designed to acquaint the travel
 ing public with the New Haven's
 latest contribution to evolution in
 transportation, the train will have in it's ''make-up" one of the cars of the vintage of about 1897, con- structed of wood, with open plat
 2orm, and by present-day stand. ards inadequately lighted by gas; one of the sturdy but heavy so-
 called standard steel cars which replaced the wooden cars as a
 measure of safety; one of the "de- luxe" coaches which four years aEO repTeScnlSN. lhS ldtOSIs WOtN tA rail transportation; modern afr conditioned diner; and two of the new stream lined, lightweight, air condition coaches styled" by Wal
 ter Dorwin Teague, of which the
 entire fifty will soon be placed in
 regular service, without extra fare.
 between Boston and New Yoyk, Springfield and New York, Wa terbury and Hartford, and Pitts- field and New York.
 zeppelin" Coming
 While the strc- lining of the new coaches Is not carried so faH as will be the case with the New
 Haven's "Rail-Zeppelin" now being
 built at Akron, Ohio, the cars rep
 resent distinct departure toward cars of a tabular shape, modernis-
 tic yet sane. and include unusual features never before attempted in
 railroad construction. They are
 built of a recently developed. light weight, high tension alloy steel, which has enabled a saving of more than twenty per cent in weight, without anY sacrifice of structural strength, and thus may make possible the setting up of faster schedules for trains in which they are to be operated.
 Most vividly striking is the in-