Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1914 — NEW TYPE OF RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW TYPE OF RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE

While steam and electric locomotives are. contending for supremacy on American railroads, an entirely new type of railway locomotive has appeared in Germany and has been put Into regular service hauling express trains between Berlin and Magdeburg. It is called the Thermo locomotive, and is propelled by a Diesel internal combustion' engine fed on crude oil. The locomotive has a four-

wheel driving truck In the center aid a small pilot truck at each end. Mounted on the driving truck is a powerful V-shaped Diesel motor operating a shaft from which power is carried to the driving wheels by short connecting rods. Driving cabs have been built on both ends so that the locomotive can run Yn either direction, and oil tanks are carried on each side of the two cabs.—-Popular Mechanics.

A New Type of Railway Locomotive—The Thermo Locomotive Propelled by an Internal-Combustion Engine.