RAILWAYS PROBLEMS
AUSTRALIAN INQUIRIES OFFICIAL IN AMERICA (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, September 22. Mr. Gahan, of the. Commonwealth Railways, who is inquiring regarding the means adopted in America to prevent boiler corrosion from water, which is one of the most important railway problems in Australia, said that the internal combustion locomotives used here would meet the situation, but he did not believe such engines would prove useful for passenger haulage in the Commonwealth. Mr. Unban goes to England to investigate steam turbine locomotives. lie remarked that the American railways wore losing many millions of dollars owing to the motor competition, hut Ids observations here had convinced him that motor transport could host accomplish a useful purpose when used as a feeder to railway lines. The American railways are meeting this competition by investing heavily in motor vehicles For such feeder purposes, and lie believed the situation, which is shaping m a similar direction in the Commonwealth. would probably he met in the same wav.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 17147, 24 September 1926, Page 7
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