HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR
The Union Pacific Railway of the United States has ordered an express train of three carriages weighing only SO tons in all, no more than an ordinary Pullman sleeping car. The train is to be made of aluminium and stainless steel. It will be stream-lined like a. racing car, and at the stopping-places an automatic contrivance will open the <loors and let down the steps. A speed of 100 miles an hour is expected, with a saving of 50 por cent horse-power. The first of the three carriages will have the 600 horsepower motor and the baggage; the second will have scats for CO passengers; the third will seat another 56 and .have a kitchen buffet to servo passengers in their seats.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 261, 4 November 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)
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126HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 261, 4 November 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)
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