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Show MOTOR CAR WILL I WORK WONDERS I Kotab!; Test nn Uninn I Pacific. I Gasoline Motor for Light mm Service Proves Marked 11 Cuccess. MB Will Chcfpen Cost of Carrying Pas- jH sengers, EiiKbitng Steam Roads to Compete With Electric Lines. WM OMAHA. April h' V. officials who today mads a Li"-mlle trip In the Union Pacific gascllne motor car which will be placed in commission by that road tomorrow express the opinion that the success of tho car will result in a rovolu-tlon rovolu-tlon of suburban and branch line mil-road mil-road passenger and freight service. To-day's To-day's test of the Union Pacific car wan the final one before placing it in practical oervice between Grand i land and St. I Paul. Neb., where It will make two trips daily as a branch train. What the Car Is Like. The car. winch was built purely In an experimental way. meats twenty persona, and In the forward end, where is located tho gasoline motor. Is reserved for baggage. The regular service cars. construction of a number of which win begin at or..,-, v. 1 1 1 Ik- rift . f. t long, will Kent Rfty-flvo pasnengei nccommo-date nccommo-date their baggage. The cam Will have a motor of sufficient hor: ...r to haul one or two trailers when it Is found ne-cessury ne-cessury to use extra equipment. Railway Officials Intc.ested Officials of a number of the large rail- road systems of the country ready have H i Interested themselves In the Idea, which j will be exploited at the coming railroad I congress at Washington. Probably the 1 greatest feature l the ritnall .peiise of H I operation. This, ll Is believed, will be about one-sixth the cost of operating ' regular passenger trains. H Conceived by Mohler. The Idea of a railroad niolot-car servics was conceived b- v'Ice -President Mohler of the Union Pacific, and the development of the car has been under the super- 1 vision of Superintendent of Motive Povv. r McKeen of that road. An ..fthtal t.nla' said that the motor r would place th" 1 railroads In fair competition with electric 1 suburban lines and give e-mall branch towns a service equal to tl-at of the main B Several cars will be placed In service on th.- pacific co., st as soon as they can bo H |