"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...
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