Show Electric Freight Engine The three electric locomotives being constructed by the General Electrio company com-pany to haul cars through the Belt railroad rail-road tunnel are nearly completed The machinery is about finished and the genators are well under way The locomotives = loco-motives will be of 1200 horsepower each jand will consist of three separate trucks rycoupled together to form one motor The weight on drivers will be 100 tons and 0 the number of drivers to each locomotive 5 taidll be twelve Tho maximum weight of I freight trains to be hauled placed at 1200 tons which can be earned at a peed offifteen miles an hour maximum weight ofpassenger train 500 tons speed thirty miles an hour E oh axle of the a locomotive has mounted upon it gear c i less motor flexibly connected tt the a J driving wheels and meaDS are provided for entro1lingihe motors and oommutat tag them so that hiphefficleuoyican be t atteined Nearly all rate of speed by ittcin j running the motors either in series multiple mul-tiple series or multiple according the load to be hauled and speed desired The current will be supplied to the motors rpm the generators by the regular trolley wire with ground return through the rails Where switches and sidings occur special arrangements will be made to prevent pre-vent the trolley by any chance from jumping jump-ing the wire Baltimore American |