Show I A XJ3W LOCOMOTIVE When the Baldwin Locomotive company com-pany and the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company entered into a combination for the purpose of manufacturing electric locomotives I every one realized that an important step had been taken towards furthering I further-ing the development of the means of transportation As a result of this I combination the first electric locomotive locomo-tive manufactured by the concern has just been turned out In appearance according to the Pitts burg Dispatch It does not in the least resemble the ordinary locomotive It looks like an ordinary passenger car measures thirtyeight feet from pilot to pilot and nine feet across It is explained ex-plained that hitherto those who have built electric locomotives have made a mistake in trying to adhere to the shape of the steam locomotive hence they failed to produce an electric locomotive lo-comotive as efficient or as advantageous advantage-ous as it would have been had they not done so In this case all the operating parts of the locomotive Itself such as the motors are placed under the car body which gives ample room above for storing freight and such appliances necessary for a train to carry The locomotive lo-comotive has eight wheels each forty two inches in diameter The trucks are built exceptionally strong on account ac-count of the heavy weight in the shape of motors they will have to carry and because of the work which they are I expected to perform The locomotive weighs 160000 pounds and owing to the manner of its construction con-struction all of this weight is available availa-ble for adhesion hence its hauling capacity ca-pacity will be 100 per cent or 65 percent per-cent more than that of the steam locomotive lo-comotive although the latter weighs 200000 pounds but inasmuch as only 70000 pounds of this are on the driving wheels the remaining 130000 pounds I are not available for adhesion That electricity is destined to revolutionize revo-lutionize the present system of transportation trans-portation no one doubts Thus far it has not proved a substitute for steam but that it will is probable It is a favorite theory of Edison that electricity elec-tricity will yet be had directly from coal If the theory every results in the actual discovery 9f the method of doing do-ing it it will revolutionize the industrial indus-trial and commercial world as did the discovery of Watt It may be that the twentieth century will realize all the dreams of the nineteenth and in Its turn dream dreams that shall be realized re-alized |