POWERFUL ENGINES
BIG ORDER IN UNITED STATES. ELECTRIFICATION OF RAILWAYS. ■ By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 6.30 p.m. Philadelphia, Nov. .10. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company to-day announced that it had placed orders for 57 electric engines “to be the most powerful electric passenger locomotives ever built.” , It is one of the largest locomotive equipment orders in the. history of United. States railroads, involving £3,000,000. The engines are designed for operating at a speed of 90 miles an hour, hauling trains of standard size and length, ' ■ . ' - '
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Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1934, Page 5
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