. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . use of pulverized fuelfor locomotives and stationary he did as the result of Dr. Ribeirosreport. Dr. Freire remained here aboutthree and a half months, during whichtime he not only completed his investi-gations, but also recommended to theCentral Railway of Brazil their adoptingthe use of pulverized fuel. As the result of the entire investigationcarefully made by these highly competentengineers, the Central Railway of Brazildecided to install a 15-ton per hour ca- chase of 12 loc
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . use of pulverized fuelfor locomotives and stationary he did as the result of Dr. Ribeirosreport. Dr. Freire remained here aboutthree and a half months, during whichtime he not only completed his investi-gations, but also recommended to theCentral Railway of Brazil their adoptingthe use of pulverized fuel. As the result of the entire investigationcarefully made by these highly competentengineers, the Central Railway of Brazildecided to install a 15-ton per hour ca- chase of 12 locomotives to burn Braziliancoal, and for the purchase of the rightsto burn pulverized coal in locomotives, asdone in the United States. An order wasplaced by that railway with the AmericanLocomotive Company for 12 passenger lo-comotives, ten-wheel (4-6-0 type), to beequipped with pulverized fuel burning ap-paratus as designed and furnished by theInternational Pulverized Fuel Corpora-tion, the foreign agency of the LocomotivePulverized Fuel Company of New York,and of both of wliich conrerv^ At- J BR.\Zir,IAN CENTKAI. LOrOMOTIVF, :] 11M:I) IdU lU-RNlNC FUEL. months, for the purpose of investigatingthe use of .-\mcrican and English im-ported and r^razilian national coals in pul-verized form, as well as in gas his return, he made an elaborate re-port on the subject, which was issued inprinted form by the director, in June of1916. About May 1, 1916, Dr. Freire cameto the United States on various impor-tant missions for the Central Railway ofBrazil and for the Brazilian Govern-ment. Mis activities included a further pacity fucl-prcjiaring and coaling plantand a stationary boiler e(|uipment at Barrado Pirahy, which is really an cnginchouseand shop terminal about 65 miles northof Rio. .Vrticle 75, of Section XXI, of the Bra-zilian Budget law for 1917, authorized thePresident of the Republic to spend withthe Central Railway of Brazil about $480,-000 for
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