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Trains Magazine 1965 October Maine's biggest two footers Lucius Beebe
Trains Magazine 1965 October
October 1965Volume 25 Number 12
NEWS ------3
RAILROAD NEWS PHOTOS 10, 14
STEAM NEWS PHOTOS - - 12
THAT ALL-AMERICAN LOOK - 18
WHAT IS THIS GG1 DOING? - 20
A BOY AND HIS M.U. CAR - 22
ACCIDENT THAT COULDN'T - 23
INNKEEPERS: THE RAILROADS - 26
BALLADE OF THE CENTURY - 30
WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT? - - 35
WONDERFUL LITTLE RAILROAD 36
Railway post office 52Second section 57
Of books and trains 55Running extra 60
Interchange 62
COVER: SR&RL 2-4-4T No. 8 at Phillips, Edward Bond; 2-6-2 No. 23, from Crittenden collection.
Q & A ON KNEILING'S X-1
WHEN TRAINS published a cover story last March on Professional Engineer John G. Kneiling's proposal for a high-speed, high-capacity, bulk-commodity integral train and labeled the report "A Train for Survival," reader reaction was prompt and diffused, ranging from love-at-first-sight to unabashed skepticism. Considerable correspondence ensued between both the magazine and Kneiling and those who questioned or simply wanted to know more about a train of self-propelled cars designed to carry up to 70,000 tons at 60 mph or better. We'd like to share this give-and-take about the concept which Kneiling's employing firm of Theodore J. Kauffeld, consulting engineers, terms X-1:
Q: Kneiling's integral train is aimed at a very limited market-the big, single-customer move. When one looks around for customers capable of using a 50,000-ton trainload of a single bulk commodity, on a regular basis, they turn out to be few and far between.
A: Granted, replies Kneiling, that no one can accept 50,000 tons in a single trainload now, but the unloading and storage facilities of consumers who account for 75 per cent of coal traffic, two-thirds of general freight, and all of iron ore could be revamped to mesh with such trains and would be, if their operators were given the incentive of a 31/2-mills-per-ton-mile rate or less. Again, the integral train would operate as a tramp steamer or a taxi, not necessarily running from one mine, say, to one utility on every trip but alternating its users.
4: We have long since passed the time when we should have started putting up the wires. Electrification greatly reduces the cost of providing the tremendous increments of power required to reach the upper speed ranges with heavy tonnage.
A: Not so, says Knelling. Far greater traffic concentration on far fewer route-miles will be required to justify catenary. He thinks juice unlikely even on a condensed 40,000 route-mile (vs. 213,800 miles today) U. S. railroad plant.
Q: [A utility] is building a new generating plant right at the mouth of a large coal mine. Can integral trains compete with something like this, pricewise?
A: Yes, if the transmission line is used for transportation only. Some lines, however, are also used to co-ordinate power output of several generating facilities, in which event rails might not be able to compete.
Q: It is difficult for this physics graduate student to see what merit the proposed use of side rods has. Granted that one seeks coupled axles to raise adhesion, [but] even with relatively small wheels
the reciprocating mass will require balancing, leaving owners open to (1) potential track damage due to couples of the rotary motion which cannot be alleviated, and (2) balancing, which is automatically a high-cost backshop job.
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