Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-08-03 | Page 11 | Makes Power with Brakes

MAKES POWER WITH BRAKES I I Iverson Uses King Of 1 Rails to o Describe Auto Battery Every motorist I Is familiar with the braking effect of ot his engine while descending a 0 hill bill Virtually this same ame principle according to 10 toC loC C W Iverson ot of the Ibe local service pervice station Is used lIed u cd when the ICing of the Rails Ralls the world worlds mightIest electric locomotive now touring the country descends the tho steep sleep grades grade ot of the mountaIn reo i-c- re regions glens gions of ot the wool west While the train drawn by one ot of these dee elec- electric elec electric locomotives locomotive is descending a along along long heavy grade the action of the th electric motors I Is Ii reversed This action not only conserves power which would other otherwise Ise be wasted led but the drag on the mo- mo mo motors tore tors similar to that on the auto auto- automobile auto aute automobile mobile engine eng turning against corn com compression com compression operates as a brake and eaves aves considerable weir we on the brake shoes Then Instead of tak- tak tak taking thE ing power from the line these thee mo- mo mo motors tors tore actually generate power PO cr and restore it to the tho line from rom which It ma may be taken by another train ascending the grade This electric locomotive 0 which 0 was built tor or the Chicago Mil SIll Milwaukee waukee t St Paul railway will haul The Olympian the famous transcontinental train of this rail rail rail- railway railway way ay over ovel the beautiful mountain ranges between n Chicago go Spokane Seattle and Tacoma It weighs 85 tons and develops the equivalent of 3 8 horsepower and Us s speed ii 18 66 65 miles per hour As In an automobile the stor- stor storage stor storage age battery pS plas an Important pal pait t in the tho operation of these gigantic electric locomotives es An battery Is used to control this reo re- regenerative re regenerative generative action ot of o the motors and to regulate thel thC speed peed of or the train In the event e ent of Interruption on the supply auppl line when hen the pow pow- power pow power er or developed de eloped by the train descend descend- descending log ing In the grade cannot be II i orb orb-d the air brakes must be used It Itla ItIs Is then that the supplies poser to operate the compressor motors which maintain a 1 supply ot of compressed air for the brakes