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Show RIO TEST III ALL STEEL CAR ISSUCCESSFUL High Tension Power Wires or Metal Construction of Coach No Barrier to Communication, Com-munication, Officials Say CHICAGO. Oct. II (Br A. P.)-Fteel P.)-Fteel Is not a barrier to radio wave and the tent of receiving 'radio telephone tele-phone communications within a mov. ln( ail steel railroad car on tha Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania railroad's Broadway limited train was declared a success In a messaffs received at tha railroad' .Northwestern regional neanquariers today from an official of Ita signal department de-partment lo advance of tha arrlfal of the train. Proadcastlng from New Tork and Philadelphia were received clearly, th measure atated, and ao successful whi tha teat considered that further teste would ba carried out. One -of the principal -point of Interest In-terest to the signal department, aa reported by K. K Stewart, who aent tha mssag wn that tha rare pt ton of wireless communications was not In-terfered In-terfered with by the high tension over hewd wires. Tha test waa held to establish tha success or failure of wlrelesa reoelv In without external antennae, in a moving all ate I railway cur. Tha radio outfit waa established In- a closed comi-artment of the car with an inside loop in lieu of external aerlala. Tha experiments were maU after the train left North Philadelphia late yesterday afternoon and leteen that point and I'aoll, I 'a., where tha road la electrified with hlirh tension overhead wlrea, rail and ateel. Tha railroad signal department wal Interested In the experiment from the at and point of adapting radio to future train operation and for tha entertainment entertain-ment of passengers. |