Show REPLACES REPLACES STEAM STEAM Announcement is made mache that the New r Irk rk Central railway is to substitute electric for tor steam locomotives on its Is tracks from New York to a point thir t te miles mUes distant from that city olt It Itis Itis is expected that the change will wJ have been completed by Oct 15 The asser assertion ton fon is made though not by any an one professing to speak for the Central management man gement that this Is the thet first step toward the electrification of the entire entre system Tests have already been made of ot electric locomotives for hauling trains through the city and the th they y have proved entirely satisfactory to all aU con concerned concerned corned It is said that there was an entire I t entre absence of ot noise odor and smoke and that the ne neT r locomotives showed s owed their capacity cpa r hauling heavy trains at at J a speed of sixty sity miles mies an hour It would assuredly be a blessed thing if ifal all al the railroads In the country could substitute electricity y for steam Think of the joy of ot traveling over the coun country country country try without fear of smoke and dirt and dust and cinders think of moving smoothly from one point to another without disagreeable noise Think too of being able to go through a tunnel without either closing cosing all aU the windows or being nearly neary suffocated by smoke There are those who beleve the day day of these blessings is coming though tough it itis itIs itis is admitted to be as yet far tar distant Still SUl electricity has abundantly anty demon demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated its it power to draw drw heavy loads and at great gret speed It I can also be transmitted for great distances The drawback heretofore has been the item Iem of cost As soon as the railroad man managers managers managers agers have been shown that they can run trains by electricity as cheaply and as reliably as by steam power the change will be made in jig time |