Show RAILROADS USING TURBINE ENGINES STOCKHOLM Jan 24 A CP OP The neck-and-neck neck race between steam ad electricity as a Ii motive power for railway trains traina ass nas grown ro ron n con hotter as aa the result of o recent recant extensive e testS In S Sweden Seden eden These show sho that Swedish turbine locomotive con con- aumes aume 45 to 50 percent less coal than a Ii modern locomotive with engines engine willie while quiring 11 I only twentieth one as asI I much water can make mako a run ot I mIles without eo slop elop And anil can n J maintain the a time ante mo i cular dul luis which at 1 1 present l rc int three locomotives es of or the ordinary t pe Runs Buns totaling moro than 10 mlle miles In regular passenger and freight service had been made bet between een Stockholm and nd Gothen- Gothen Gothenburg Gothenburg burg burg No Xo o stops to take on water have been necessary and the con cnn con consumption of coal coat has hns bet beets been n only about halt half as much as that of I the engine The Tho turbine I e which Is 19 th the invention of the tho Sw S Swedish edish engineer r I Ljungstrom Is 19 a radical departure t Om the reciprocating engine instead of ot the te familiar piston and C clinder mechanism together with Ith the clan drive wheels with Ith their counterweights LJungstrom uses turbine shafts being tho drive drives s heels Among the time advantages of or time the a as sum summarized mart zed by the In- In Inventor In Inventor are the saving sating In fu fuel 1 and water ater smaller engine crews high high- higher higher er cc of the boiler 0 owing Ing to pre heating of the combustion air redu reduction of fire tire risk because sparks from te to furnace are I ex-I ex- ex ex In 11 the pre heater morel more efficient starting power smoother running and less wear on and couplings smatter smaller apace space rel re-i re In Lii the roundhouses and imore more comfort for the passengers andI I due to the absence of steam clouds |