Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1914 — SURE TO BE ALL ELECTRIC [ARTICLE]

SURE TO BE ALL ELECTRIC

Time Certainly Coming When Use of Steam as Power Will Be Given Up by the Railroads. The time is coming when all railroads will be operated by electricity. Even now we are in the period of the swift speeding, powerful electric dreadnought of the steel highway. The New York Central railroad, part of whose system is operated by electric power, is having built for Its terminal six electric locomotives, to be the most powerful yet constructed. They are being built at Schenectady, and will have a higher efficiency than any other high-speed locomotive yet constructed. They are to develop 2,000 horsepower for one hour. Of this »the equivalent tractive effort is 14,000 pounds at 54 miles an hour continuously, or 20,000 pounds at 49 miles an hour at one hour rating. Each locomotive can haul a l,2tW-ton train on a level track continuously at 60 miles an hour. Talk about pull!