Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1916 — Peat Fine for Locomotives. [ARTICLE]

Peat Fine for Locomotives.

In Sweden experiments in the use of peat powder on locomotives of the state railways have demonstrated that as heavy trains can be pulled and as good speed be made where this fuel is employed as where anthracite is used, according to official statement. The statement declares that the powder can technically, as well as economically, take the place of anthracite as fuel for locomotives, the railway directors have decided to undertake the development of this class of fuel by two different methods for purposes of comparison. Two experts have been requested to give complete estimates of the cost of preparing a certain bog for the manufacture of peat powder, together with estimates of running expenses, by the respective methods. The bog selected is said to be that at Hasthagen, about one and a half miles from the station at Vislanda, with an area of about 500 acres.