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Show T ply the current wiich, in the near future, fu-ture, Is to move, trains, which are now being pulled by these mighty masses of steel ribbed with vanadium and carbon car-bon steel. Within five years the lesson which the gasoline motor passenger car, tho invention Inspired by E. H. Harri-man, Harri-man, has taught will find a response In gasoline propelled freight cars, each car carrying Its own motor somewhat in the form of an auxiliary and the train of motor freight cars being controlled from a motor car proper, with gas feed pipes extending the length of the' train, but the most radical change will come with the application ap-plication of individual electric motors to each freight car of a train. MONSTER ENGINES AS SEEN IN OGDEN. The most powerful. locomotives ever built were in Ogden Sunday last and were viewed by" hundreds of railroad men and others. The total weight of engine and tender. of .on ot these monsters was 300 tons, or three times the weight of . an engine which, ten years ago ..was th.e .largest in the world. This giant of the steel-way' was, In fact, a double engine, the forward half euipped with. . low pressure and the other half with high pressure' cylinders. cylin-ders. With all four cylinders "taking steam, the engine is capable of haul: ing forty cars up the .steepest grade over the Sierra Nevada mountains and 125 loaded cars over a track such as that between Ogden and ' Montello. There were various opinions expressed ex-pressed as to this departure in locomotive loco-motive construction. An' engineer of long experience said that five years would see similar engines running out of Ogden and. a conductor expressed regret that railroad progress was In this direction as- the larger and more powerful engines wore displacing railroad rail-road employes and making for those who remained in the service more responsible re-sponsible and difficult tasks., .The conductor failed "to realize that all these great Improvements, while temporarily tem-porarily displacing workmen, - are opening greater fields of human endeavor en-deavor and making possible the do: velopment of natural resources heretofore here-tofore unavailable. But in our opinion, the comment of an engineer,- to the effect that these great powerful engines had reached their limit and their decline was in sight displayed the keenest fore-Bight. fore-Bight. He said cars will be equipped electrically with individual motors; that In the placo of a ponderous engine en-gine carrying a weight of hundreds of tons as a tractive force, the cars themselves will be made to serve that purpose and. in the proportion of their load, will weigh down and grip the rails; that a power, now exerted from one end of a train, straining or breaking drawheads, will be distributed, distribut-ed, each car propelling itself; and the eutlro train will be controlled from an electric cab, through an Insulated copper cop-per wire. Ho spoke of the possibilities of water wat-er power for electric generation; -of coal converted at the mines Into gas and piped to central power stations, there to become electric cnergv; of natural oil similarly converted- and all these forces to fce utilized to sup- |