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Show EEOOED TRAIN OF ORE ON BINGHAM DISTRICT On Tuesday, May 3. the Rio Grande's Bingham district handled the largest train possibly that has over been moved .with one engine In the intermountaln country. Mallet Compound No. 1050 was the locomotive pulling the tr.-iln, which consisted of eighty loads of ore. or fiOOO gross tdns. from Welby to the Utah Copper Cop-per mill at Magna. Tho train. Including engine and cahoose. was nearly 3400 feet long, or almost two-ihlrds of a mile-This mile-This Is a record to be proud of and The Tribune would be glad to receive from any railroad man In the Intermountaln region some word as to other heavy trains, as the subjcot of tonnage Is one most dear to tho average superintendent's superintend-ent's heart. |