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Show Heavier Knglnet Bound to Come. The demand of the time is to move weight over distanco at the least possible possi-ble cost to it on slow freight or fast passenger pas-senger train.". There aro hundreds of locomotives in service of about forty tons weight, capable of hauling a train of 100 tons at the average running rate of sixty miles an hour. Uut that is not the kind of fxst train that our railroad managers want They aro required to make money for the companies employing employ-ing them, and they realize that it pays much better to u.se locomotives weighing weigh-ing sixty tons that are capable of hauling haul-ing a fat train of 11U0 tons. It in a curious study, and one that is Interesting to some minds, to investigate the rapid sjieed that might bo made with safety with locomotives having abnormally abnor-mally large drivers, but as far as the bearing on American railroad operating is coim-rued, it is just as practicable as specnlutions or calculations respecting the time it would take a balloon of certain cer-tain proportions to reach the moon. National Cur Builder. |