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Show Locomotive Runs. During the past few months, the Baltimore and Ohio railroad has materially ma-terially extended the runs of the passenger pas-senger locomotives on through trains. Formerly engines were changed on an average every 100 or 150 miles. It was thought that the mountain grades of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad would prevent an extension of the runs. However, How-ever, the experiment was made. It has proved successful and reduced the number of locomotives formerly required re-quired by twenty-four, which can be used In other branches of the service and save the purchase of more motive power. Under the new plan, locomotives locomo-tives are double crewed and make from 7 000 to 8,000 miles a month, as against 3500 to 4,000 under the former method. |