. American engineer and railroad journal . the ma-chinery—this far outweighs in importance the several otheradvantages incidental to electric driving, such as the saving ofhead-room, the absence of long lines of shafting, the avoidanceof power wastes, etc. In reality economy of power is of littleimportance, inasmuch as its value, whether furnished by shaft-ing or by a motor, is nearly negligible when compared with theimportance of increased product. 2 90 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. INSTRUCTION CAR. AtchlBon, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway. The Santa Fe lias recently equipped a new inst
. American engineer and railroad journal . the ma-chinery—this far outweighs in importance the several otheradvantages incidental to electric driving, such as the saving ofhead-room, the absence of long lines of shafting, the avoidanceof power wastes, etc. In reality economy of power is of littleimportance, inasmuch as its value, whether furnished by shaft-ing or by a motor, is nearly negligible when compared with theimportance of increased product. 2 90 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. INSTRUCTION CAR. AtchlBon, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway. The Santa Fe lias recently equipped a new instruction car,the arrangement of which is shown in the accompanying plan!A postal car 50 feet long was rebuilt for this purpose and it Quantzintecomatzin is the name of a car operated by theAmerican Tourist Association. This car is said to have theusual number of truss rods, but there must be some concealedsteel work in the frame in order to carry such an extraor-dinary load. Whats in a name? There appears to beeverything in this _ J Hiu Uoad L.,... (Over Ucai) tiToJlM .r^,!^* apparatus, a large proper-tion of which is working mechanism, and this is accompaniedby other apparatus sectioned inorder to facilitate on the plan indicatethe location and description ofthe apparatus, making a list ofthe features of the equipment un-necessary. It includes the high-speed brake, electric headlightand turbine, injectors, and theordinary brakes. As this roadhas a large amount of electric-lighting apparatus for passengercars with generators driven fromthe axle, a generator is placed inthe car for instruction 100 cars are now runningon this road with axle of being hung from thetruck in the usual way, this gen-erator is mounted on the floor ofthe car so that it may be studiedand described. It also serves tolight the car, and represents theequipment as it is actually inuse. Instead of providing acompressor, this car is suppliedwith compres
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