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Show Huge Mallet Engine Placed In Service One of the largest locomotive railroad rail-road engines ever seen in Southern Utah, visited Salina last Sunday and it proved a novel feature, many of the curious visiting the yards to see the giant. The engine, No. 3413, is owned by the Denver & Rio Grande and it was sent here primarily to j test the new 85-pound rails that have ; been laid as far south as Vermilion, says the Salina Sun. I It was announced that the engine would run regularly on the Marys-vale Marys-vale branch and would be put in ser- i..,.. -Pv.;v,- hauling beets, cauliflower and other products from Sevier and Sanpete counties. The engine and tender measure 101 feet and two inches and the combined weight of both, loaded, is 029,300 pounds. It has a water capacity of 9,000 gallons and a coal capacity of 15 tons. The tractive power is 99,000 tsounds and it will pull a train, of 1500 tons from Salina over Hilltop and to i Thistle, with comparative ease. The ! fire box surface is 300 square feet and the engine is 11 feet wide, and with heavy loads can make an aver-; aver-; age of 20 miles an hour, j The huge engine is known as the Mallet articulated compound, and is j the third largest operating in the ' United States, and before being ; brought to the Marysvale branch' it ' was used on Soldier Summit. Frank j Ladd, a long-time employe of the Denver ard Rio Grande, was at the ' throttle and F. C- Anderson, operated operat-ed the automatic coal stoker. |