WAUPACA POST

November 8, 1883

 

The problem of safely transporting potatoes in cars during the winter has been solved by the Eastern Road at Boston.  Hitherto the custom has been to place an ordinary stove in the car and trust to luck for the maintenance of fire during the journey.  The new box cars on the eastern Road have an oil stove under the center of the car, with an oil reservoir just above by which the fire is fed.  An ingenious system of pipes leads through the car, and by a patented kind of valve the hot air is kept continually circulating around the sides and roof.