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Show Double Cabbed Engine. At the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad company's shops at ytica eighty men, mostly skilled mechanics, me-chanics, are employed. At the present time they are" working on a peculiar locomotive known as tha culm burner. The engine is queerly shaped, having two cabs, one for the engineer and one for the fireman. Under the boiler and firebox tho machine has six large driving wheeli The weight of these great mogul engines Is between thirty-five nnd sixty tons each. They are made to haul heavy freight trains. The machinery is o arranged that the steam is never exhausted. ex-hausted. They are valuable also for the reason that their fuel ia the refuse coal ,roia the mines, which could not otherwise other-wise be use4 without a great loss. Albany Al-bany Argus. |