. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . ble, it has been foundI hat an economy of water of about 30I er cent, and coal of 20 to 30 per centresulted 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 find that freight can be handled at Six More Powerful Electric Locomo-tives for the New York CentralTerminal.
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering . ble, it has been foundI hat an economy of water of about 30I er cent, and coal of 20 to 30 per centresulted 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 find that freight can be handled at Six More Powerful Electric Locomo-tives for the New York CentralTerminal. The New York Central & HudsonRiver R. R. Company has recently or-dered additional powerful passengerelectric locomotives from tlu (itnoral same type were placed in service in 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 aredesignated type 4-4-4-4 and are eachequipped with eight bipolar, gearless mo-. : 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 plowby means of which it has been jiossibleto 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 line between Lincoln, Neb., L^ni-versity Place and Bethany. The Omaha,Lincoln & Beatrice Railway Companyhave been very progressive and have
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