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Show The reasons which make It Impossible Impossi-ble for the locomotive to cumpce successfully suc-cessfully with the trolley In one or another an-other loan in iu.ramurai tratilc and a ' suburban service will gradually narrow the spheiv of Its usefulness, and It requires re-quires no great stretch of the Imagination Imagina-tion to predict that it will ultimately disappear nltogctiicr, prophesizes the New York Times. This will be gradual, grad-ual, no doubt, but It seems to be inevitable. in-evitable. Its last useful function will be lu drawing trains over long strciches of country lurnlshlng little tralllc but separating populous and Important sections. The locomotive has performed per-formed n service of incalculable vuluc lu the world for something over a century, cen-tury, nnd may last well Into Its second century of life, but with all its modern rcliuciucnts it Is nt best a crude and wnsteful device, nnd neither crudity nor Avnstefulucss has n permanent place lu the economics of modern Industrial In-dustrial organization. |