Word: interurban
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Illinois Central's Locomotor. It looks like an interurban or subway electric car, but is a combination steam locomotive and passenger car. Within a sheet steel inclosure is a steam generator only 6 ft. high by 4 ft. diameter. Oil distillate, left after crude oil is refined, keeps superheated steam under 550 to 600 Ibs. pressure. The steam automatically operates two driving engines hung from the car body, and an auxiliary engine which operates lights, fans, pumps. Built experimentally by International Harvester Co.* and the Ryan Car Co., tested by the Illinois Central since last August, this locomotor easily...
British Railroads & Busses. U. S. railroaders dared but admire, not imitate, the action of British railroaders who now are buying control of all motor bus lines which conflict with their traffic. In England municipalities own most of the city, suburban and even interurban bus lines. With their authorities, Sir Josiah Stamp and Sir Ralph Wedgewood, able, persuasive financiers both, have had on the whole successful parleys. As for the U. S., the New England railroads have done most to absorb or create bus lines. The severest railroad-bus competition is along the Pacific Coast...
...conventional idiom, self-made; he took Collis Huntington's money and used it to advantage. Born in Oneonta, N. Y., in 1850, he dealt in hardware, switched to railroading, grew. He bought land, built resorts in southern California, and ran railroads out to them (the Pacific Interurban, the Los Angeles Street Railways). He made about a hundred million dollars. He said he would retire at 60. That age loomed in his life like a pillar at a boundary, dividing the world of business from that other world in which his thoughts had their root...
...cylinder bus last week with a 100-h.p. engine, overhead valves, 7-bearing crankshaft, 4-wheel metal-to-metal air brakes, 9-in. balloon tires, double-drop frame, 2-stage springs. The body, which is a single-decker, holds 18 to 23 passengers in the de luxe model for interurban service, 25 to 29 for less taxing city service...
...typical case can be quoted. A man with the training of a chemical engineer was employed. He became the head salesman of the industrial gas branch of one of the small companies. In a short time he was made the superintendent of the fastest interurban railway in the world. A position fraught with great responsibilities for an inexperienced young man. The firm, though, has perfect confidence in the young man, for they realize that the engineer's mind will not make any serious error. In a short space of time, the young superintendent will be thoroughly acquainted with all matters...