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Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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- com-pressed air, and it has some resemblanceto a locomotive, or a pair of switcher tanks ;but it is no more capable of hauling a trainbetween New York and Chicago in com-
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day people who think that electricity istaking the place of steam, and that soonlocomotives and stationary engines will becold in death, fuel useless, and a motor doing all the work. There are even somerailroad men who expect to see many ofour present locomotives rust to death in-stead of being worn out. Most people donot take the trouble to thiik along thetrolley wire, to inquire where it goes to, orwhat it goes for. Those who do, alwaysfind that it ends up against a steam enginesomewhere, and that it goes after electricenergy, put into it by a dynamo—a steamengine doing all the work. A little inquiry soon shows that theelectric current is only a convenienfmeansof conveying power—a belt—and that B.\LTIMORE & Uinu HmCTRIC LuUOMUTIVK. For .suburban business, where light,frequent service is needed, electricity isbetter and cheaper than steam motors, andwill and ought to be used ; but the electricmotor that is to run at lightning speed, andhaul the ordinary trains of our trunkl

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