Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1918 — USE LOCOMOTIVES FOR HEAT [ARTICLE]

USE LOCOMOTIVES FOR HEAT

Large New Jersey Plant Saved Necessity of Shutting Down by Two Railroad Engines. A large manufacturing plant at Arlington, N. J., was cold as a refrigerator one winter’s morning, and there was no Immediate relief in sight. It seemed as if the three eight-hour shifts of 3,000 employees might have to be dismissed. There was no time to Install a new heating plant; besides that would have been too costly. The superintendent wanted just enough steam to furnish heat for a few hours. Two Erie locomotives were placed on a side track, a steam line connection was made between the hot water pipes and the steam dome of each engine, and the plant was heated at an expense of SSO for the day, which was the cost of the engine and fuel. Valves were placed to enable the source of steam to be controlled. Cold water was supplied to the tenders by an underground pipe. Popular Science Monthly.