Show Camel Locomotive Drinks Only Once Every Miles Moscow The The new type of locomotive known as the SO but popularly called the camel has completed a around around around round trip run from Moscow to Vladivostok pulling a freight train of 1200 tons The distance covered was over miles according to the Tass agency Equipped with a tender condenser the SO used only tenth one the amount of ot water normally needed by a freight locomotive for the long journey With its ten ton ten ton water load the SO can operate for about miles without replenishing its water supply Its long time between drinks makes the name c camel ap ap- ap- ap The boiler and running parts of the new locomotive differ but little from the ordinary locomotive The tender condenser which so efficiently efficient efficient- ly conserves the water supply is a i most complicated mechanism how how- ever In the cooling system are 2160 copper pipes having a length of of over feet These copper pipes have fin plates which Increase the cooling area Each tender- tender condenser has some such pia plates tes t I |