Show HARRIMAN HARRIAN LINES TO HAVE STEEL GARS CARS E. E E. E Calvin Says First Ne New Equipment Will Wi be Ready September 1 1 I IN N SHOPS AT SACRAMENTO ENTO New e Cars Cm to be he Sub Substituted for fUI Wooden Wood en ln Stock Stock- as met U Fast int us mis They C Can I be he Completed I IThe I IThe The first steel all pa passenger cen cr coach to Ic toi he i o 0 us used d on en an any Western railroad wll wlllie wi lie he C placed in commission by the Iho Southern South South- ern ln la Pacific September 1 and a fe ew days fl'S later th the road will wi place llaco In commission commission com com- mission the nr first l steel all steel al-steel mall mail mal car Ii iise II m use se e In the quo United States State These Thee carwill card car cardIll will wi Ill inane mark th the tho beginning of or an Inno ration valon In railroad equipment In th tho West Vest and allt K F. 1 E. E Calvin vice and mid general manager of oC the thc Southern Pacific Fays fRYS the they lucy will wi b hH be completed at t the Sacramento shops In hit sixty days Before that Vork will wil have been started on un others tumid and as fast ast as a they lucy can cal in be he turned ou out nut from coin th the Sacramento Sacra Sacra- mento monto shops th they will wi be substituted ur Jr r the tho steel leel anti ami wood passenger en cr and andall mal tail all cars CUIS now V In iii use on the ito Southern Pacific a C I fic Is Until recent years tears the adoption of ot steel 1 construction for passenger slee al-slee cars cr irs has ha been little more titan than a dream thai mt mat master car builders boulders hoped would come true truo while doubting doubling Its Is lies si bit lilt but recent advances In iii the tho science clence of or practical steel stee construction have ave given elven material encouragement n t to the ie originators or of lie tho plan pian aim ani last month the hue first tech allIs passenger lw coaches caches ever evem built hult were completed d b byan by an n Eastern company for the Southern raIlroad These he e Cn'S cars care were exhibited at 1 t I the convention con enton o of nH tee master car build buIld- or r rs held lucId In n New York a few weeks ago agoan an and nd have ha since been hoen placed In iii regular service on the Southern As Af their thel building was regarded ded In the lie nature or of o on oran an n experiment only two cars were on the first order hut but now nm lint hat their heir success and anti demonstrated other orders order lave have Leon been orter e have lavo been beC placed and the they are attracting attract attract- Ins ing tig the lie attention of r man many officials o of other roads roads Independent t E. E The Sou Southern thorn Pacific officials began started work o on their i i. i aunt and I Ijan plans dans r for r st steel el coaches at about the uie thestine I same ti time mae thal O project was wag started In iii n the he East but hut they worked CU LlY and amid Independent of ur the lie Eastern peo- peo ant Dle and heretofore no mention menton of their plans ant has been made malc Although the steel all steel al-steel coaches coache recent recently completed bv hy the I. I Eastern tern manufacturers are nrc about 15 Hi per cent heavier than thon the old stylo of r steel stud and wood cons construe construe- ruc- ruc stylo oll-stylo tion ion those being built hult by hy the Southern lon Pacific Pac fie will ivill wil be 10 per cent lighter than titan rho The E I he the cars calS now In iii use Eastern builders say sa however howe they will wil beable le leI be beable able to Incorporate Improvements II in I SI Lh lie lie- next order that will wil rl thE th i down to 10 cen corL t than t lie Ihu style old oll lo or if wood wool and amid steel cars Another Innovation that will wi hll be he Pacific In re replacing replacing re- re made muade I I by the South Southern rn c all coaches with new ones placing wih made matle placing al of steel will isilI wi be be- beto to equip every ry one of or the lie new lew passenger er an nOd and mall coaches with wih el electric lights The current mal tot fut these lights will wi he be devel devol- developed attached to the r h b dynamos by axles of erich each of the lie cars cat cars and a n steady the the use curl current nt will wi bo he maintained by furnish a system to of storage battery current cUrent when the lie car cr is not in Iii milon motion been heen In lii successful suc tic I that hat has Tb This is Is a j i n ful operation for several years ears although although al- al ces though most of Out the lie electrically lIghted trains In lii the lie West Vest are supplied Horn flom Horna floma roni ronia a dynamo namo In the lie baggage car ear Sa Suin i ill FrI lt Service Sees SlI Some Sonic yearn ago aJo the lie Harriman lines Jnes steel In begun building s frames freight which SK the weIght K or of a box hox ear from n about 4 to toI I 1000 Steel con con- s throughout aft will wi re- re the he wel weight ht of oC the car to In a train of fifty cars cars- can saving of 7 75 to this would mean a of oC that make the tons and amount ant to the trainload lluis increase In together with wih the thc of the cars the ch s of their heir repair and of lie maintenance which Is fully fily 50 fO p ier r wooden cars means a a. nt over r the hue tremendous saving sving for COI the Harriman I lInes nos Still another raving that will wi be of- of effected ef ef- Sti In the thc way wayn is L by the us use of oC steel of less cluing n lOs s los amid tama damage s-a s e ss from wrecks The Tue loss of property Is much where steel less aro the ns as ears less are Not only will wi the steel car ale ci usel coaches he be absolutely lire file Ilc- Ilc passenger he or Of f a sl st style lc le 0 of hut but they lucy wi make construction on that lint will of collision hie Ing in case electric lighting system and w lh the time all danger wih of or gas as explosions will vili 1 lie Ih eliminated l. l I Ens it 10 to I i. i the 1 With Uh a view to 10 sho shoving In iii wrecks the tho steel eight ft-eight hail taken of that hall had been boat bont and twisted cars teen of a so that from the Iho force olce a lon coll 1001 looked utterly they et talen graphs of tho lie same cars wore were OO on oil thom them of aftem an ofel showing them good as new though the Pullman Al has hns not yet matte any uny steel alt cars being turned equipment now of the all al li-i li out embodies of steel all amid hen heavily vI reinforced rein rein- time tho way nl It is I forced amid I company the boast or of time the Pullman car saw sa a 0 that no hit one ever cr the tho how severe telescoped no and these new Improvements wr wi vilI c male them still sun more impervious shock to 10 steel the In ge nr I the differ little from coaches passenger coaches now In use hut some stan of or the designs are for longer cars CIs I |