Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1913 — Weight of Trains. [ARTICLE]

Weight of Trains.

The extreme weight and speed of modern railway trains to a train weighing 400 tons tooving at a velocity of seventy-five miles an hour. Many people are amazed at the destruction effected by railway trains when they ptrike an object at rest, such as a delayed train. A mass of 400 tons propelled at seventy-five miles an hour contains energy nearly twice as great as that of a 2,000-pouad shot fired from a 100-ton Armstrong gun. No wonder that such a train proves a terribly destructive projectile.