Archive for the 'Trains' Category

Three Cylinder Train Engine 1925

THE THREE-CYLINDER LOCOMOTIVE
WHAT HE CHARACTERIZES as “perhaps the most significant of our modern locomotive advances” is described in The Scientific American (New York, February), by Albert C. Ingalls. It is the first successful development in America of the three-cylinder locomotive. There is nothing complicated about this new development, Mr. Ingalls assures us. Simply, instead of [...]

Roller Bearings installed on Rail Cars 1922

TO ABOLISH THE HOT BOX
AN ANNOYING DETENTION for an hour or so by a “hot box” on a car is not calculated to make friends A for the railroad on which it may occur. Sufferers will welcome the promise of a Detroit inventor, Leo K. Stafford, that a new form of roller bearing devised by [...]

First Air-conditioned Trains 1930

ARTIFICIALLY COOLED RAILROAD TRAINS
Railroad trains can hereafter manufacture their own weather as they roll along, and a Pullman or a day coach in midsummer may then be cooler than an outside cabin on an ocean liner. An air-cleaning and cooling system for cars on passenger-trains has just been successfully tested by the Baltimore & Ohio [...]