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Show BIG FOUR GIANT LOCOMOTIVES The Big Four railroad has recently received from the builders four S-wheel S-wheel passenger locomotives to haul their fast trains. These engines are, in every respect, models of their kind, and are probably the largest, fastest, most powerful and best looking passenger pas-senger engines in any part of the country, and are a credit to the management man-agement and their designer, Mr. Wm. Garstang, superintendent of motive power of the Big Four, and the Schenectady Sche-nectady Locomotive Works, their builders. The engines are now in ser- unnecessary pipe or rod to mar their symmetry. The material used in the construction of these machines is the finest of its kind, and the greatest care was exercised in both the tests and workmanship to insure every part being perfect. The driving wheel centers, cen-ters, steam chest and covers, cylinder heads, foot plates, auxiliary dome, driving boxes and spring seats are all of cast steel, while the dome castings stack base, boiler front, cylinder castings cast-ings and tender truck frames are pressed steel. The boiler is extended ONE OF THE NEW LOCOMOTIVIfiS. vice between St. Louis and Cleveland, on the fastest and heaviest trains, making mak-ing the time and doing it easier than was ever accomplished before on this run. In designing these engines it was necessary to make a machine combining combin-ing great power with high speed and easy running avoiding all jerk to the train, an unnecessary strain on the track. This has been accomplished to such an ex'-nt that both engine and tender, while at the highest speed, ride with the greatest steadiness and so soft and easy a motion that the engineers en-gineers claim not to be at all tired at the end of their run. These noble machines ma-chines stand 15 feet high from top of rail to top of cab and 9 feet 5l2 inches to center of boiler, which, with driving driv-ing wheels 78 inches and truck and tender wheels 3G inches in diameter, show trim and powerful, without an wagon top with tabor back, 62 inches diameter at smallest ring and 78 inches diameter at the throat built to carry a wagon pressure of 200 pounds per square inch. Among the special articles are Kichnrdson's balance valves, Jerome metallic packing, Coala muffler, Kunkle open pops, air operated oper-ated bell ringer, French springs, Leach pneumatic sanding device, gold steam heat, monitor injector, Janney couplers and Fox pressed steel tender truck frames. Some of the principal dimensions dimen-sions are as follows: Weight 130,000 pounds; cylinders 20x26 Inches; boiler diameter G2 inches; tubes diameter 2 inches; tubes number of 320; fire box width 41 inches; fire box length 108 inches; working pressure 200 pounds; heating tender water capacity 5,000 gallons; tender coal capacity 10 tons; tender trucks, pressed steel. |