Show ST PAUL W GETS BIG largest ones ever bu it to be used in fast passenger runs larger trains and an ck schennie Sch ednie are to be the several ot what are claimed to he largest locomotives ever ed were lec elved by ane chi ago M 1 walkee waukee and st paul road yesterday in these days of large engines each fresh consignment received by a rail road during the past year or two has had the distinction of being the larg est while these monster locomotives have in a way ceased to excite sur prise those just received by the st paul road are remarkable in their jl mansions men for example the diameter of the driving wheels is eighty tour and one fourth inches or one fourth of an inch over seven feet following Is a technical description of the new giants diameter of driving wheels inches diameter of compound cylinders 25 and 15 binche stroke of cylinders 28 inches total length of engine 68 feet 11 inches steam capacity of boiler pounds fire box 8 feet 8 inches by 5 feet 5 inches number of flues in boiler heating surface 3 square feet capacity of tender IS pounds ol 01 coal and 7 gallons of water baet time possible general passenger agent miller oh the st paul is en thusia tic over tha new engines alleging that they will tend to revolutionize schedules and power he says they will be capable of hauling fourteen or fifteen heavily loaded coaches or sleepers sixty milea an hour grades be little or no obstruction to the leviathans the locomotives will be put in ser vice on the limited trains between chicago and milwaukee and between chicago and omaha |