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Show HUNDREDS SEE ' ; HUGE ENGINES ATD.&R.G.W. -." , . . New Locomotives for Use Between Be-tween Salt Lake and Den- ' ver Declared . Larj." , " " est In World , . , " -.1 k Jr . Alons In th rlr rlshtlM. Illl to b exact, a lncHnotlv brlr Urn th tndr on a modern main, with "Nonlmnn" wrltton tcrott iti lii In flartns whit lt- tr, ouffol Into lh Dnr Ttlo Orsndo Wtitorn station ai Bait I Laka. . Today aa an, llluatnttlnn of tha : onnrmoua prosraaa mada In the evolution evo-lution of power In the paet forty yrara. two alant loromotlvea, fifteen feet In helicht and 101 feet In lenslh. I ara purrina In front of the Denver ' A Itlo Grande Weatern atatlon and capturing the Inlereat of hundreda 1 of peraona attracted to sea the targ-I targ-I eat enclnee In tha world. Aa a apa-I apa-I rial favor to the publle the manatee. ment of tha Rio Orande haa put tna rnrln. on. fxhlbljloa where they, will remain today and tomorrow. Ro lon( la the enlne No. l&At that new mallei frelabt locontotlve. that alaty-aevea men can allsn thamaelvea body to body and reach from the tip af the pilot to the coupling cou-pling on the lender, lie total welch! la 414 one pound, as compared with the ti.eoa pound, of the early "Mnnleiuma." When loadea with alateen tons of coal and Its water capacity of Itooa nallona. tna en-Vlne en-Vlne welha T44.S0O pounda. Tha other enalne en exhlhlttn la one of the thirty new paaeenaer ensinea to he put In operation be-twrn be-twrn Salt Ukt and Denver. 1a number la 1M1 and the total welsht of the tender and engine loaded la tj.loa pounds It la ninety feet long and carries 14O0 gallona of water, with a coal capacity of twenty twen-ty tons In order to Veep pace with tha development of the territory In Colorado. Utah and New Meilro nerved by the road, the. Denver a Rio Orande Weetern haa purchased the new engines at the 'estimated coat ef l,o.m. All of three engines en-gines are larger than any paeeenger loromotlvea in the world, "according to P. A. Wadlelgh. passenger traffic manager of the system. They were built by the American bncomotlvo company at Dunkirk, New Tork. In addition to the forty engines of the colloesal typs, the Denver a Rio Grande Weatarn haa contracted for ten Mikado narrow guaga locomotives, loco-motives, twenty per cent more powerful pow-erful than the narrow gusga an- Sines now In service. Seven hun-red hun-red eoeJ car. S06 stock aro and lao narrow guaga stocks cars havs been purchased. Work equipment brlnga tha total expenditures during dur-ing tha past twelve months to ft.-001. ft.-001. 12. Tha engines after being exhibited here todsy and tomorrow will be i shown In Ogden Monday, |