. Railway mechanical engineer . tive fired with pulverized fuel was put intoser\ice August 27 and the rest of the locomotives were putinto commission at the rate of one a day thereafter. OnSeptember 9 the first run was made with the pulverizedNational coal. This run was made with considerable cere-raonv, the president of the republic riding the locomotivethroughout the trip. A report of the trip from an observeris given below; The first official with our national coal pul-verized was realized yesterday, September 9, on the Cen-tral Railway of Brazil, with the special train that tra
. Railway mechanical engineer . tive fired with pulverized fuel was put intoser\ice August 27 and the rest of the locomotives were putinto commission at the rate of one a day thereafter. OnSeptember 9 the first run was made with the pulverizedNational coal. This run was made with considerable cere-raonv, the president of the republic riding the locomotivethroughout the trip. A report of the trip from an observeris given below; The first official with our national coal pul-verized was realized yesterday, September 9, on the Cen-tral Railway of Brazil, with the special train that trans-ported Dr. Wencenslao Braz, president of the Republic ofBrazil, and his stafi. Locomotive 282 was attached to thepresidents special train at Barra do Pirahy and pulled itto Cruzeiro, a distance of 147 kilometers, or about 90 miles,the time being three hours. The trip w-as made with ex-cellent results, particularly in the long stretch between Barrado Pirah\- and Cruzeiro. During a great part of the trip the president remained. Back Head of the Pulverized Fuel Burning Locomotive withi the CabRemoved in the locomotive cab, assisting with the feeding of thefirebox with the national coal pulverized in the plant re-cently constructed at Barra do Pirahy, the coal having comefrom the Sao Jeronymo mine. The president of the re-public showed himself very much impressed with the calorificvalue of the coal and the ease and regularity with whichsteam pressure was maintained by the locomotive through-out the trip, and without any smoke. The tonnage of the train was 210, which was hauledback, the total coal used being, as well as I can estimate,about 4 tons. The running time going was three hours exactly; the return ,> hours and IS minutes. President Brazsent a telegram to the minister of public works, as follows;The fuel problems of our country have been solved. Healso sent a telegram of congratulations to Dr. .\ssis President and the director expressed themselves asbeing e
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