Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1912 — New Idea In Railroading. [ARTICLE]

New Idea In Railroading.

There is in experimental use on a Swedish railroad a car bolding forty passengers run by a combination ol electricity and oil. The electrical equipment is driven by a Deisel engine, consuming crude oil and is said to show as high efficiency as gasoline engines. The railroad line is a short section of twenty-five miles, and a good speed of. forty-five miles an Iffiur is obtained. As usual, the engine drives a dynamo, so as to give current for the car motors. The fuel, consumption is twenty-two pounds of oil, against five tenths to one ton of coal for a steam locomotive, and s small amount of water is used.