Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 360
called steam-cars or dummies. They are made noiseless by a special arrangement of exhaust,and in order not to show smoke they are made to burn coke or anthracite coal. Powerful brakesadmit of stopping them in the same or in less time and a shorter space than the ordinary horse-car.In order to pass… … speed of from 12 to 15 miles per hour, and consume from 6 to 1 lbs. of coal per mile. It has beenstated that four steam motors will take the place of 63 horses, and show a saving of about $40 a day.Fig. 2892 represents a separate motor, and Fig. 2893 a steam-car, as built by the Baldwin Loco-motive…
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