Show Tho Hargest Locomotives l Again the record has been broVn The Alton has had lately delivered It two locomotives of which It IB 1 sorted that they are the largest sni most powerful In the world They hi1 been built expressly for the heavy train service between Chicago and St Lo1 during the exposition They will htni twelve cars weighing exclusive of ba gage ana passengers about COO torY With a full load their weight will h > about 700 tons Such a train must U hauled 110 ½ miles In two and a half hour with two stops and three slo downs making the average ruunlnL speed of fortysix miles The total weight of engines anti tender is 374 c < Vj pounds This cylinders are twentytno Inches In diameter with twenlyelpht Ineh stioke Tho driving wheels six In number are eighty Inches In diameter and the working stonm pressure In 21o pounds The tender has a capacity S100 gallons of water and nine tons of coal The boiler IK of the straight tyn seventy Inches In diameter with alt UVSlnch tubes twenty feet long TV lire box Is nine feet long by MJC wide with a total area of 107S square feet o healing surface |