Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — OUTPULLS TWO STEAM ENGINES [ARTICLE]

OUTPULLS TWO STEAM ENGINES

Kijw Electric Locomotive Demonstrates Its Strength, All possible question of the ability of electric locomotive No. 1 of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to pull the heaviest trains through the Baltic tunnel have been disposed of. With the tremendous load of twenty-six freight cars, all laden to their utmost, and two large locomotives, the electric motor palled through the tunnel with not nearly all power on. This test of the locomotive. Was the most important that has yet been, made. The load pulled was, at least 2,800,000 pounds. The . two steam engines, which were attached to the train, joined their forces when the electric locomotive was detached to take the train on Its journey east. William Mooney, a tailor at Rothsay, Can., has discovered that Loretto Addis, now Lady Sholto Douglas, is hip daugh-' ter. - 1 - :Y|