. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . -speed service, the standard speed is 40miles an hour. Using one traner it canalso make the same speed, the load in tinsciise being 35 tons. Vvnen tour trailersmake up die train a slower speed of 20miles an hour is used. The total weightof the latter train is divided as follows:Weight of the locomotive, 17 tons; fourtrailers, weighing 7 tons each, 28 tons;222 passengers, iS tons; baggage, 3 tons,making the total weight 66 tons for thetrain. A lighter locomotive is also em-ployed, using a 30-h
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . -speed service, the standard speed is 40miles an hour. Using one traner it canalso make the same speed, the load in tinsciise being 35 tons. Vvnen tour trailersmake up die train a slower speed of 20miles an hour is used. The total weightof the latter train is divided as follows:Weight of the locomotive, 17 tons; fourtrailers, weighing 7 tons each, 28 tons;222 passengers, iS tons; baggage, 3 tons,making the total weight 66 tons for thetrain. A lighter locomotive is also em-ployed, using a 30-h. p. outfit. It has anet weight of 14 tons and a radius of ac-tion of 120 miles. There are now 22 loco-motives of this type in service. More re-cently there has been put in service alighter unit of 22 h. p.; also on the pe-tiol-electric system. The Westinghousepetrol motor is used in these cases. , president of the company, wasefficient in promoting the present enter-prise. Thermit Repairs is the name of a paper-covered booklet which fits the pocket andgives information about how Thermit. .\IUTUk C.\U AND TK.\, A for 80 h. p., and a lighter one which gives30 h. p. In both cases the petrol-electricequipment is installed on the same includes a gasoline motor groupmounted on the same foundation, with agenerator of the railway type. Current issupplied by the generator to the electricmotors, mounted on the car axles. Single-reduction gearing is employed betweenmotor and axle. On the roof is installedthe radiator for the water cooling. Themotor car is also provided with a con-troller for operating the motors, also witha gasoline tank for the petrol motor, andother appliances. As ■ concerns the 80 h. p. locomotive,which is illustrated here, the net weightof the locomotive in service is 17 tons. Ithas the space not occupied by the station-ary motor cabin and the motormans cabinfitted out for passengers, using a first-class compartment, which holds 15 passen
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