Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1914 — NEW TYPE OF INDUSTRIAL LOCOMOTIVE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW TYPE OF INDUSTRIAL LOCOMOTIVE

A powerful industrial locomotive, using gasoline for motive power, is in use on the lake front in Chicago, hauling cars of dirt for filling in where improvements are contemplated. A steel frame is built inclosing the wheels, which are 30 inches in diameter. The engine, which is narrowgauge, has a width of four feet eight inches, and is twelve feet four inches long. Its height is but seven feet six inches, as it is used in an industrial tunnel, and it weighs seven tons. The short wheel base, four feet, enables it to make sharp turns, and it has been found to be a sturdy little worker, adapted both to the outside tracks with heavy grades, and to the tunnel

Curious narrow gauge gasoline locomotive ” which gives efficient service on outside and tunnel tracks In Chicago Tike front Improvements.

where electric propulsion is used for ordinary work:—Popular Mechanics.