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Show A LOCOMOTIVE BOOM The Baldwin Locomotive Works, the two or three thousand employees of which have been working night and day for months past, has just received the largest order for locomotives ever given in this country. Heretofore an order for ten engines at one time was considered a large one, but the present order comes from the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company, and calls for 141 locomotives, part of which number will be delivered next fall, and the remainder during the following winter. These locomotives are intended to meet the increased equipment required by the southern extension of the Denver and Rio Grande road, for which the financial arrangements were completed a month ago. Sufficient of the bonds of the new division have been subscribed for to enable the company to proceed with its construction. <br><br> The cost of the 141 locomotives will aggregate something over $1,000,000 or about $7,000 apiece, and with the present force employed in the works it would take about three months time , providing there was no interruption, before the engines could be made ready for shipment. The Baldwin Company will not work on them for six months yet, and its production will be in accordance with the terms of delivery so that the resources of the works need not necessarily be delivered exclusively to the filling of this mammoth order. [Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. |