OIL RAILWAY-ENGINES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1888, 24 October 1913, Page 8

OIL RAILWAY-ENGINES.

——t — SPEED 01? OVER 60 MILES AN HOUR, , The large Diesel entitle loeemotivfi built si. wiutertluir, Switzerland,• for goods traffic, has recently undergone further trial, and is reported to cava behaved very satisfactorily. I. c ' ha* reached a speed of over sixty miles tin hour, and has shown considerable "flexibility," a quality of the steam engine which it was not thought, easy to arrive at with oil engines. . A good deal of important Development is taking place in tho.oil engine locomotive, but so far tiio best- results appear to have been obtsmcu with a combination of the internal combustion engine with electricity, the oil engine driving a generator wlncli Supplies tho current to electro-motors. . 'flit- Diesel locomotive, which was built by tho firm of Siikcr, con travel verv Erent distances owing to the use of liquid fuel.' which is stored in Wiich less sptice thaii' the corresponding amount, of coal. It Was the disadvantage of requiring a; powerful auxiliary engine for compressing air, the loeomotivi starting on impressed air until a speed of about six miles an Wour Was been reached. A number of cylinders for storing compressed air are i>ccesstiry, and these, together with the auxiliary and Wain engines, cause the locomotive to appear very long, rather more like a Pullman coach imut nil oiigino.