Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1915 — Powerful Electric Locomotive. [ARTICLE]

Powerful Electric Locomotive.

Daring the year 16 powerful electric passenger locomotives have been placed in service on the main lines of the New York Central railroad. They are the moat powerful passenger locomotives in existence, and each is capable of hauling a train of 14 steel Pullman cars continuously at a sustained speed of 60 miles per hour; while with lighter trains a maximum speed with these locomotives has been obtained of 85 miles an hour, these speeds having been accomplished frequehHfon the experimental track of the company near Schenectady. All the wheels of the locomotives, including those on the leading and trailing trucks, carry motors, the whole weight being thus available for producing tractive efforts. —Scientific American.