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Show A Jumbo Locomotive. The Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis road has probably the biggest passenger engine running on its road in the United States, and certainly the largest in Ohio. It weighs sixty-five sixty-five tons, has three drive wheels, each five feet eight inches in diameter on a sido. Tho boiler is given 185 pounds of steam, which is nearly fifty pounds more than the ordinary engine. Tho engine was built by the Brooks company com-pany and is the most powerful ever constructed by that firm. In the iirst trip of the engine from Cleveland to Gallon eight miles of the road was made in seven minutes with eleven coaches on. |