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 Railroad, and is now in regular service, we are told by a press bulletin issued on behalf of the road. We read:

“The hottest car in a train in summer is the dining-car. Installed in the diner ‘Martha Washington,’ the new air-conditioning device was tested in regular train service between Baltimore and Cumberland. It worked perfectly.  Applied to all cars eventually, it will take the bugbear of discomfort out of summer train travel, the engineers declare. It is calculated to cool a car from 10 to 15 degrees below outside temperature on the hottest and most humid day. Since it also removes excess humidity from the air, the effect on the passengers will be even more refreshing and cooling than the thermometer indicates, while excessive chilling will be avoided. The B. & 0. and the conditioning engineers have worked together in secret for more than a year on the problem of removing all dust, soot and cinders from car air in all seasons and cooling the air in hot weather.”

Source: The Literary Digest for May 24, 1930

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