. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . as near-ly uniform as possible, it has been foundthat an economy of water of about 30per cent, and coal of 20 to 30 per from using superheated steam atabout 200 pounds gauge pressure. December, 1913. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 453 Electrical Department Electric Locomotive in Freight Service on the Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrice Railroad. The electric locomotive is extremelyuseful for handling freight on interurbantrolley roads. A great many of theseroads Bnd that freight can
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . as near-ly uniform as possible, it has been foundthat an economy of water of about 30per cent, and coal of 20 to 30 per from using superheated steam atabout 200 pounds gauge pressure. December, 1913. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 453 Electrical Department Electric Locomotive in Freight Service on the Omaha, Lincoln & Beatrice Railroad. The electric locomotive is extremelyuseful for handling freight on interurbantrolley roads. A great many of theseroads Bnd that freight can be handled at Six More Powerful Electric Locomo- same type were placed in service in 1908. tives for the New York CentralTerminal. Tlic New York Central & HudsonRiver R. R. Company has recently or-dered six additional powerful passenger electric I motives irnin the General All have sufficient tractive effort to handlea 535 gross weight train at 60 miles perhour. The ten 100-ton electric locomotives or-dered the fore part of this year are4-4 4-4 and are eachequipped with eight bipol ;s mo-. ELECTR1C LOCOMOTIVE IN FREIGHT SERVICE ON THE OMAHA, LINCOLN & BEATRICE a profit. Electric locomotives can bebuilt in all weights, so that the mosteconomical weight can be obtained for theload to be handled and a business built upwhich would be impossible with the steamlocomotive. An example of the success of the elec-tric locomotive in this service is that inoperation on the Omaha, Lincoln &Beatrice Railway, which is only one ofmany that have been built by the West-inghouse Company. This locomotive,shown in the illustration with sevenfreight cars, weighs tons. In the winter, when freight business islight, the railway company equips thislocomotive with a very large snow plow,by means of which it has been possibleto keep open its tracks and maintainschedule. At present the service performed bythis locomotive is to transfer carload andless-than-carload freight over the eight-mile
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