New Petrol Electric Railway Car.
A trial run took place recently between Schenectady and Saratoga, NY., of a petrol-electric railway coach constructed by the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad. The car consists essentially of a petrol-driven electric generator, furnishing current to electric motors geared to the driving wheels, and controlled by a method similar to that employed in the ordinary electric-car equipment. The car is 65ft. long over buffers, and, when equipped, weighs 65 tons, and although it was not designed for high speed, the average running time was about 35 miles an hour, and on several occasions the car attained a speed of over 40 miles an hour. The engine develops 160 b.h p. at a speed of 450 r.p.m. The cylinders are horizontal opposed, six m number, 9m. diameter, 10111. stroke. The engines are started with a cartridge filled with black powder ; the cartridge is fired in one cylinder by a hand trigger, the arrangement being similar to the breech mechanism of a gun.
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Progress, Volume I, Issue 10, 1 August 1906, Page 274
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173New Petrol Electric Railway Car. Progress, Volume I, Issue 10, 1 August 1906, Page 274
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