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Show FROM STEAM TO ELECTRICITY. Indlanapo'.is Nows. It looks as though the day of steam were passing. In this prodigious change If It come America Is likely to lead the way. Already there 1b a feeling In Europe that If electric locomotives are to replace steam tho question will be solved In this country. And the steam locomotive was never more powerful. Think of the speed It attains, of the loads It hauls! What did the world know a few years ago of what the steam locomotive could do? Compare the machine of o few years ago with j the one of today Its size and speed. A ship does not convey an Impression of man's power to accomplish great things more forcibly than does a modern mod-ern American railway train with its monster onglne, Its long train of huge cars, with all the appliances of water and light and heat. And yet this monster mon-ster locomotive may eoon have to mako Its bow, so to speak, to run Its last race. Its very perfection Indicates that it has reached the limit. e |