Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1916 — STEAM AUTO FOR RAILROAD [ARTICLE]

STEAM AUTO FOR RAILROAD

Car With Baggage Compartment Will Travel a Mile a Minute—Economically Operated. A steam automobile railroad car, using kerosene as fuel, capable of making a mile a minute and carrying 44 passengers, is being built in Newton, according to a Boston correspondent of the New York Sun. The members of this concern manufacture a steam automobile that bears their name. For a long time they have been working upon a plan of adapting the steam automobile engine to railroad and street railway purposes, they have now reached a point where the first car, t which may be described as the steam automobile enlarged and applied to rail conditions, will be on the rails In the course of a month or two. One member of the firm estimates that with the present cost of kerosene the operation of the car will be about one cent a mile. It has a baggage compartment and a compartment for the engineer, weighs about 35,000 pounds and will cost about SIO,OOO. The body is of steel and Is equipped with air brakes, electric lighting system and standard equipment. Designs have been made for a smaller car td? carry 26 passengers, and adapted more for service similar to that of trolley cars.