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Show ST. PAUL ROAD GETS BIG ENGINES. Largest Ones Ever Built to Be Used in Fast Passenger Runs. larger Trains and Quick Schedules Are Expected to Be the Ultimate Result. Several of what are claimed to be the largest locomotives ever constructed construct-ed were received by the Chicago, Milwaukee Mil-waukee and St. Paul road yesterday. In these days of large engines each, fresh consignment received by a railroad rail-road during the past year or two has had the distinction of being the largest larg-est While these monster locomotives have in a way ceased to excite surprise, sur-prise, those just received by the St. Paul road are remarkable in their dimensions. di-mensions. For example, the diameter of the driving wheels is eighty-four and one-fourth inches, or one-fourthl of an inch over seven feet. Following Is a technical description of the new giants: Diameter of driving wheels, 84) inches. Diameter of compound cylinders, 25 and 15 Inches. Stroke of cylinders, 28 inches. Total length of engine, 68 feet 11 Inches. Steam capacity of boiler, 200 pounds. Fire box, 8 feet 8 inches by 5 feet 5 Inches. Number of flues in boiler, 350. Heating surface, 3,215 square feet. Capacity of tender, 1S.000 pounds of coal and 7,000 gallons of water. Thinks Fast Time Possible. General Passenger Agent Miller of the St Paul is enthusiastic over the 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 miles' an hour. Grades will be little or no) obstruction to the leviathans. The locomotives will be put in service ser-vice on the limited trains between) Chicago and Milwaukee and between' Chicago and Omaha. |
