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Show THE UNION PACIFIC AND ITS MOTOR CARS. The announcement that the Union Pacific is about to engage largely in the construction of motors is an indication indica-tion to the San Francisco Chronicle that the motor which that company has been experimenting upon is to be extensively ex-tensively used, and the Chronicle says that "for a long time it was thought that electricity would have the last say in this matter, but there is a disposition to revise opinions, and meanwhile to push things." We think the Chronicle Is laboring under a wrong idea. As we understand it the motor which the railroad men are now looking to Is altogether an electric motor, only through a gasoline engine the electricity is generated as the train moves along, and electricity runs the car the same as it does a trolley car, only It manufactures its power instead of receiving it from a distance. The advantage is supposed to be in its economy, and then the motion is a rotary motion and obviates the jerk and jar which always accompany a crank motion like that of the steam engine. |