. Railway mechanical engineer . d no moah! —C. W. Savery Market Letter. \iKiL\xE Enoines for R.^ilw.^y Locomotion.—A curi-ous experiment has been tried in Germany to lessen some-what the consumption of coal on the railroads by equippinga car especiallv built for experimental purposes_ with air-plane engines and propellers, according to an article in theScientific American. The car was built for standard gagetrack and was ec,uipped with two standard airplane enginesand propellers. The engines are of the six-cylmder t>pe,and most likelv of 275-hp. rating. One engine is mountedabove the front
. Railway mechanical engineer . d no moah! —C. W. Savery Market Letter. \iKiL\xE Enoines for R.^ilw.^y Locomotion.—A curi-ous experiment has been tried in Germany to lessen some-what the consumption of coal on the railroads by equippinga car especiallv built for experimental purposes_ with air-plane engines and propellers, according to an article in theScientific American. The car was built for standard gagetrack and was ec,uipped with two standard airplane enginesand propellers. The engines are of the six-cylmder t>pe,and most likelv of 275-hp. rating. One engine is mountedabove the front platform on which are two barrels of fuel and•inparentlv two automobile radiators which have been pressedinto service and the other engine and similar equipment isover the rear platform. No attempt has been made to steam-line the car further than the rutting off of its forward cor-ners so as to give an approximate wedge-shaped front is stated that with 40 people aboard, this car attained aspeed of SO miles an A Rear Jiczv of Terminal M. C. Builds Engine Terminal at Niles, Mich. New Division Point Established; Transfer made fromMichigan City Without Serious Delay to Traffic o X December 9 and 10, 1919, the Michigan Centralplaced in operation a complete new freight engine ter-minal at Niles, Mich., and abandoned the operationof the Michigan City, Ind., terminal except for such loco-motives as are required in local work. The new engine ter-minal is part of a project for the transfer of the freight ter-minals of tlie Middle and Western divisions from MichiganCity to Niles in order to equalize the mileage and improve miles by the air line, while the \\estern division is increasedto a length of 92 miles. The terminal includes a modern 30-stall engine house ofthe shed-roof type, supported b)- four concrete posts betweeneach pair of stalls, a 600-ton Link Belt coaling station, twocinder pit tracks over a 125-ft. concrete pit, and a six-pitlocomotive repair shop. On
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