. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . entireelectrical equipment, including the spring drive ot the motors,is the design of the Westinghouse company, while the me-chanical parts were designed by the engineers of the Bald-win Locomotive Works and the New Haven RailroadCompany. The specifications required that the locomotive be ableto haul a 1,500-ton freight train at a speed of 35 miles anhour on level track, where the train resistance is not oversix pounds per ton. They also required that the locomotivebe capable of hauling an 800-ton passenger train at a speedof 45 miles an hour. This ca
. Journal of electricity, power, and gas . entireelectrical equipment, including the spring drive ot the motors,is the design of the Westinghouse company, while the me-chanical parts were designed by the engineers of the Bald-win Locomotive Works and the New Haven RailroadCompany. The specifications required that the locomotive be ableto haul a 1,500-ton freight train at a speed of 35 miles anhour on level track, where the train resistance is not oversix pounds per ton. They also required that the locomotivebe capable of hauling an 800-ton passenger train at a speedof 45 miles an hour. This capacity would enable it to haulan 800-ton limited train from the Grand Central Station, NewYork City, to New Haven, a distance of 73 miles, with nointermediate stops, in one hour and fifty-five minutes; orto haul an SOO-ton express train the same distance in twohours and twelve minutes, with an allowance of five minutesfor stops; or to haul a 350-ton local train in two hours andforty-five minutes with an average stop of forty-five 150-ton WcstinghouSL Electric Locomotive. That the locomotive is an unqualified success has beendemonstrated by frequent tests made under severe operatingconditions. Besides proving itself in other ways, it hashauled 37 loaded cars, a heavy freight engine and a caboosefrom New Rochelle to Stamford, a distance of 18 miles, in 27minutes. Although this run was made in a drizzling rainthat froze as fast as it fell and made the tracks very slippery,(he engine attained a speed of 49 miles an hour. Duringsome tests made at the works of the Westinghouse companyat East Pittsburg, Pa., the locomotive started and accelerateda 2,100-ton freight train both on level track and on an up-grade of per cent on a 3-degree curve. A train corre-sponding to the SOO-ton passenger train was accelerated at arate of about miles per hour per second and quicklyreached the required speed. For hauling trains the newlocomotive has about twice the capacity of any one
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