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Show : 1 : : J Triumph in Railroading Which H. H. Rogers Would Have Dearly Liked to Witness One engine the othor day drew a train more than a milo long, composed of 12Q cars, loaded with 6600 tons of coal, for 124 miles at an average rate of fif-tocu fif-tocu miles an hour, oh tho Virginian Railway, for wftich tho dead Standard Oil financier jeopardized his vast fortune in order to malto it a road of easy grades x , Drawing shows locomotive pulling tho milo long train of 120 cars and tho samo locomotivo pulling an imaginary car of a size oqual to the combined 120, about thirty-six times larger than the engine and tendor. Arrow shows last car of train, |