RECORD LOCOMOTIVES

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1925, Page 3

RECORD LOCOMOTIVES

The most powerful electric locom.iMve ;ud also the largest elect<•<<• iuc-mo lue ii* the wot Id are n*v I. .se built bv the Westinghousc Electric f, li. pally at East BitLsburgh. Pa., U S.A.

Thu electrical equipment tor most power! ill elcutric locomotive is heim* built lor Henry Lord, automobile manufacturer, and the largest electric locomotive for the Virginian Hailway as part of a $Lo,(K)0,000 electrification project. q |,e locomotive th.it Henry Fed "ill place m service on .is own road, tile Detroit and Tronton. will be a giant in size, weighing approximately .■A 1 .0 <, 0 pounds, and being 117 loci, *>ng and i n feet high. It "ill have siL;:e:i 250 horse-power motors and these "ill he connected to sixteen pairs of driving wheels. The locomotive is lor lieight service, being capable of handling a train of 150 freight cars. Its run nog speed will average seventeen mhes an ho r with a maximum oi thirty miles an hour.

The. trolley voltage adopter; for Ford’s railroad is 22,00!) volts, 25 <yeles, alternating current, whim voltage is double that of any prevknn'y attempted on any other elecle'dicat.oii in the United States.

Tho electric locomotive for the \ irginian Railway, the largest in the world, is now in the W'eiciighouse plant where the installation or the electrical equipment will soon he hm lied. This loiemotive is ' ompri rod or three motor power units and is the first of 18 similar locomotives to he supplied in the $15,000,009 P" which is the largest railroad leA-dila-tion contract ever awarded. At pasent the heaviest tonnage trains m the United States are being hauled on the Virginian Railway and. "hen the new loeomotives are placed in service, thev will permit even larger tonnage Grins. In addition to the electric locomotives the power-house equipment, transformer stations and other uecessarv equipment for complete electn - cation of the Virginian Railway will he supplied by the YVestinghouse ( orapuny.