Show I STEAM LOCOMOTIVES ARE BEING REPLACED RV BY ELECTRICAL fl While motor motOl cars are crowding horses to the farm and even threaten to push them to td the pasture other modes modes' of transportation are undergoing undergoing undergoing under under- going rap rapid d development Now it is the locomotive the huge puffing puffin steam locomotive that that t Is being beh g relegated relegated rele rein gated to the background Electricity is the power that is crowding the steam monsters t to the scrap heaps The extent to which electricity has made Its onward march In railroad circles is sl shown own In Ina Ina ina a booklet which has just been issued by the General Electric company The booklet deals with the uses of electricity on the New York Central lines In adopting the us use of or electric locomotives the New York Central has solved solved- one of the the- most difficult problems with which It had to contend contend con con con- tend The first electric train out of the Central station was on September September Sep Sep- 30 1906 Now through trains from the east the north and I the west are handl handled d daily by electric electrio elec elec- trio locomotives The New York Central locomotives are described In the booklet as follows follows follows fol fol- fol- fol lows All of the electric locomotives now in the New York Central service were d designed and constructed at Schenectady Schenectady Schenectady N N. Y by the General Electric company and the American Locomotive Locomotive Locomotive tive works Some of ot these engines have four driving axles each carryIng carrying carrying carry- carry Ing the armature of an electric motor having a normal rating of ot horse horsepower hors power or a total of 2200 horsepower and and and-a a possible capacity of horsepower horsepower horsepower horse horse- power for short periods Others have eight driving axles and a maximum capa capacity ity of horsepower The power thus developed is much greater than that of 01 the largest steam passenger passenger passenger pas pas- engine and the service performEd performed performed per per- formed Is the heaviest railway pass passenger passenger pas pas- s nger traffic ever handled by electric locomotives Hauling a train of twelve standard passenger coaches on ona ona a level track these locomotives will easily develop a speed of of 60 to 70 miles per hour The run in either direction with equal facility and if it re requires requires requires re- re quires two or more locomotives may maybe maybe maybe be coupled together and operated by byone byone byone one engineer from the leading cab The weight of these locomotives Is about tons oas as against tons for the modern Steam locomotive with tender |