. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . cing a large volume of air at high speed through an annularchamber which encircles the whole cir-cumference of the tunnel at one end. The appliances to do this were put inoperation last March, and are doing thework very well at a small expense. Atpresent a steam engine is employed to dothe work, but arrangements are makingto use electricity generated by one of thestreams in the neighborhood of the tun-nel. It seems to us that the system mightbe beneficially applied to the Hoosac andother long tunnels in
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . cing a large volume of air at high speed through an annularchamber which encircles the whole cir-cumference of the tunnel at one end. The appliances to do this were put inoperation last March, and are doing thework very well at a small expense. Atpresent a steam engine is employed to dothe work, but arrangements are makingto use electricity generated by one of thestreams in the neighborhood of the tun-nel. It seems to us that the system mightbe beneficially applied to the Hoosac andother long tunnels in the country. Amer- a new electric railway system to be knownas Bells Consolidated Equalizing MultiplePneumatic Electric Railway, atfd nowhave patents pending at Washington,D. C, for the same. This road is to bebuilt according to the most scientific andmodern plans of the twentieth century;road bed to be lO feet Syi inches gage,with endless rail overcoming the buttjoint; rail to weigh 150 to 200 pounds tothe yard. The object of my invention is to in-crease the weight of road bed and de-. HOMER ^PIDS, ALASKA. ican travelers object so badly to thestifling gases in tunnels that it would payrailroad companies to go to considerableexpense to keep air pure in these places. A Qreat Scheme. A visionary individual, who givesChicago as his address, has sent us a longdescription of a railroad that is going tobe nearly as wonderful as creation. Wesubmit to our readers the following para-graphs from the circular: I have all of my plans formulated for crease the weight of rolling stock, not byany means building lighter cars than thepresent system of steam railroads. Theelectric railway cars are to be built ofsteel of the most modern and scientificplans of the present age. One passengercoach to constitute a train, weighing from80 to 100 tons, carrying about 600 to 700passengers; box cars to weigh about 40tons, and fiat cars to weigh about 30 tons;freight cars to carry about 200 tons deadfre
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