Show A The Wonders of America By T. T T. T MAXEY t e MI THE THE MOST POWERFUL LOCO LOCO- I MO MOTIVES ES j jAT f T the time tilDe of their completion the I AT locomotives used for hauling thelong the w long heavy coal and other trains o over er erthe S. S the ste steep p railroad grades In the mountains moun moun- u tame of ot Virginia were the most powerful pow erful In the world orld S Th The enormous size weight and aDd poof power pow po er er of these leviathans of the rail are r po positively t astounding abounding Each Bach f engine x Y and tender weighs almost pounds Is considerably more than r feet teet iu length has 20 o driving wheels Is fire fired by machinery exerts a p pull o of 17 pounds and i said aid will haul any load loud that r the coupling pin will III hold The boilers boUer of the these thee e giants giant on wheels t are about 9 02 fe feet t In diameter r. r Tach Ench i. i boiler boll r contains contain 1 two and A It quarter quarter- ir r rl flog h u 1 placed end to end nd 1 would Bach reach almost two miles al also alsot o t I r seventy rc 5 flues having a total d. d 1 l length of more than a quarter quart r of a mile mite The fire boxes are l 13 15 fret feet long S 'S and 9 0 feet teet wide 1 The shipment of the these e large locomotives locomotives tives Ues from the point of ot construction s I to the point of ot service presented an unusually peculiar and difficult problem problem lem hem requiring gr great at care and aDd attention y i for tor the reason that the tracks and n bridges bridge of the various railroads over o S which they had to move were not In nil nib cases built to withstand such tremendous tremendous tre tre- m weights They were shipped In a 3 partially knocked knocked down down condition r and approximately two t w weeks ks were requIred required res re re- re- re s S to move them from Schenectady N. N Y L T. T to Princeton W. W Va Three ThreeS S t cars were necessary to carry the loose and detached parts belonging ng to each locomotive e |