. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . •JHE McKEEN MOTOR CAR ON THE NORTHERN PACIFIC. caused to be organized. This car is ofsteel, accommodates 70 passengers, weighs34 tons and is capable of making 60 milesan hour. It will be operated on someone of the companys minor divisions. Oneof the same kind of cars has been runningon the Smyrna division. The McKeen gasoline motor car wasdesigned for steam branch line and inter-urban railroad service. It is also beingused with success as an adjunct to steam 1^ 1^ is equipped with a 6-cylinde
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . •JHE McKEEN MOTOR CAR ON THE NORTHERN PACIFIC. caused to be organized. This car is ofsteel, accommodates 70 passengers, weighs34 tons and is capable of making 60 milesan hour. It will be operated on someone of the companys minor divisions. Oneof the same kind of cars has been runningon the Smyrna division. The McKeen gasoline motor car wasdesigned for steam branch line and inter-urban railroad service. It is also beingused with success as an adjunct to steam 1^ 1^ is equipped with a 6-cylinder 200 h. p. gas-oline engine, which readily developed 250h. p. at four hundred revolutions per min-ute on water brake test. The engine ismounted on the front truck and is inde-pendent of the car body, which relieves thelatter of vibration. By numerous tests it has been provedthat the wedge-shaped car surpasses thusquare or rounded end car in that itlessens the resistance and therefore costs. ELE\ATION AND PLAN OF THE McKEEN .MUluR CAR. service out of main terminals. The firstmotor car was completed in March, 1905,under the direction of Mr. W. R. McKeen,Jr., then superintendent of motive powerof the Union Pacific Railroad. The con-ception of the gasoline railway motor carshad its origin in the desirability of a light,economical, and, at the same time, re-liable means of transportation for branch less to operate. In fact, by accurate dataobtained from a test, it was shown that ittakes 40 per cent, more gasoline to run acar with blunt front end, at high McKeen motor car is quite similarto a racing yacht. In proof of the effi-cacy of the wedge-shaped front end theMcKeen Company say that in a driftingtpst made with Motor Car No. 18 on a 6- Learn Wireless 6 R. R. Telegraphy !-Ucjrlage of fully Operators on ac-count nf 8-hour law and extensive wireleBO*tlc-velitinnents. We operate under directsupiTvlsInn of Telegraph Offlclala and posi-tively place all students
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