Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 203, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1916 — DESIGNED TO FIGHT FIRE [ARTICLE]

DESIGNED TO FIGHT FIRE

Apparatus for Use on Railroad Lines Is Believed to Be of inestimable Value. Believing that the municipal firefighting facilities of the various communities through which its Hue passes are inadequate to protect its property, a Canadian transcontinental railway has built a fire-fighting apparatus of its own, designed to be hurried by locomotive to any scene of conflagration along its route, reports Popular Me* chanlcs Magazine. The outfit consists of an engine and tender coupied to a flat car carrying a tank having a capacity of 10,000 gallons of water. On the roof of the tank Is a 10-inch steamdriven duplex fire pump with a capacity of 300 gallons per minute. Steam for the pump is supplied from the locomotive’s car heater. By setting the latter's regulator at 120 pounds per square inch a water pressure of 100 pounds is secured at the nozzle. In a recent test the apparatus threw two streams about one hundred feeL One man is required to regulate the pump and two to operate the nozzles.