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Show CRACK TRAIN HAS RADIO EQUIPMENT Carrying what is said to be the; first wireless set ever put on a railroad rail-road train, the Overland Limited east-J bound arrived in 1 gdf n today at 2.0T o'clock. The experiment is helm: made by the Southern Pacific com-j pany to determine the feasibility of wireless communication on a transcontinental trans-continental train According to the train crew thi 1 radio st-t picked up messages while ! en route from Oakland from points; las far distant as Honolulu, Los I Angeles. Seattle and Kansas C'lty.j j while It was at Sparks, Nov. The messages received bv the train J camo more sharply on the grades I and on the lowlands, and could be 1 heard as clearly In the tunnels on I elsewhere The advisability of retaining tb: radio on transcontinental trains will be considered by the company as soon as the Overland has finished the experiment. nn |