Show I I MOTOR ARS CARS FOR HARRIMAN LINES i iI I I I I 1 1 i ti t I t I u ui ul uI uI i l l I T m m J V S SI I I Type of Gasoline Motor Car tar to Be Placed in Operation Shortly on Branch Lines of the Harriman System Gasoline rail motor cars are arc at last to tobe tobe tobe be installed on western roads of the Har liar Harriman Harriman riman railway system Word ord reached Salt Lake yesterday that during July Jul twelve of the new motor cars will be put into service on the Union nion Pacific road and that within the next six months the Oregon Short Line and Southern Pacific roads will be supplied with at least a doz dozen dozen en more of the new cars The announcement of the time installation of this service on the western w terri part of the i Harriman system is of t tie e greatest im un importance I for it marks a new era of rail railway raily way y passenger transportation on small branch lines of the Harriman roads The Time photograph reproduced above shows one of the time new cars Twelve of these are now ready in the time Omaha shops of f the time Union Pacific and twelve more are arc under con eon construction construction There is little doubt but that in due time we will get our share of the time new motor ears cars in Utah tah and antI on the branch lines of the time Oregon Short Line said saltI K E 1 I I Buckingham general superintendent of the road yesterday afternoon Mr III Har liar Harriman I riman has ha taken a great deal of oC personal interest in the construction of the time motor cars ears and they the will wilt be used next month by the Union Pacific on the small branches of the time road where passenger service of the regular sort is not now maintained That Thatis is the time idea of service for these cars They The Theare are sire engine and coach combined and there are scores of small branches on the west western western ern era division of the Harriman system where the time traffic is not hot heavy hea enough to warrant a regular passenger train and it itis Itis itIs is on such branches that the time motor cars carswill carswill will ill be used Take the run from Cache Junction to Logan for instance We c can cannot cannot cannot not afford to put on a regular train be between between between tween those points but we could well wIll use one of the new motor cars Mr 11 Buckingham declared that he did not believe the new cars would be put on between Salt Lake and Ogden as the Oregon Short Line operates sixteen trains a day at present between the thc two cities and this is considered sufficient The latest type of the time motor cars de developed developed developed at the Omaha shops of the Union Pacific makes 60 00 0 miles an hour with a horsepower engine reaches high speed within six sim car lengths and can be bl stopped I within 20 feet With these advantages the ears ars can ean be hC put on a much faster taster schedule than is possible with the steam locomotive Outwardly the newest of the cars ears which are built entirely of steel resemble a yacht acht The Time forward end ta tapers tapers tapers pers sharply sharp and the roof and rear are rounded off to reduce the air resistance and avoid the tIle vacuum produced by b a square car Rounded windows give ghe t to the time passengers a wide range of oC outlook and increase the nautical appearance of the time car carIn carIn carIn In cold weather the cars are to be heat heated cd ed by hot water from front the cylinder jacket They are lighted by b acetylene lenc gas shining through opalescent panels panel For sanitary reasons the time floors of the time cars are built so that they the can be thor thoroughly cleaned by flushing with hot wa water water Water ter The familiar system of ventilation has been replaced by b roof ventilators which exhaust the inside air all by h suction fresh air being taken in from the car roof in front Vibration is reduced to a minimum by b the way wa in which the motive power is balanced The cost of operating the tile ears cars varies from 10 to 20 cents a mile according to time the density of the traffic but the records kept prove proe beyond doubt that the rail rall motor car ear will make possible great im mm improvements Improvements In handling branch line pas passenger passenger passenger traffic |