NEW ELECTRIC ENGINE
HUGE LOCOMOTIVE LONGEST EVER, BUILT, Frees Association —By Telegraph—Copyright, NEW, YORK, August 10. A message from Detroit states that a locomotive which .Mr Henry believes will be the next step in world railroad transporiaGon is ready to make a trial leM over Mr lords Detroit-Tolcdii-Trcnl on ra 1 1 road,
The locomotive is the Jonge-i ever built,, its length being IG'ii, am) it is electrically driven, developing a maximum ol 5,000 home-power, sinliciont to mill a train ol I might ears one and wimlf miles long at a maximnni speed of thirty-five miles per hour. Each of tho sixteen axles is driven by a separate motor, the current being ohtnined from an electrified line. 9he rah has forty-two plate-glass windows, and elaborate precamions against shocks arc taken. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19017, 12 August 1925, Page 5
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