New Locomotive

“Behind a series of iron doors” engineers of the Baldwin Locomotive Works have been profoundly and secretly at work. Over their labors brooded the shade of Rudolph Diesel; the immediate con-consulting engineer in charge was Carl H. Knudsen.

Now the iron doors have opened. There has rolled forth a locomotive equipped with “a two-cycle oil engine of 1,000 horsepower which is only 12 ft. long, stands but 4 ft. 7 in. above its mounting frame, and propels the locomotive through a dynamomotor electric transmission.”

Said Inventor Knudsen, as he sailed from the U. S. on the Stavengerbjordto receive the congratulations of Norwegian engineering societies: “The new motor, compact and costing less than one half as much to operate than a steam engine, can pull, and has pulledpassenger trains at 75 miles an hour, and can make the transcontinental trip at this rate without stopping for a second . . . can pull 3,000 tons of freight on a level track— the work of three steam locomotives.”

Engines developed along Diesel lines, especially in Scandinavia, are already driving the steam engine from the seas with “Motor Ships.”

*At the commencement of the War, rumors leaked out that Herr Diesel had fallen foul of the German Secret Service who suspected him of being on the point of peddling other revolutionary secrets outside the Fatherland. He was reported to have vanished suddenly and utterly.