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Show A Super Power Plant on Wheels THE largest steam locomotive or. earth was built to haul all the freight ears the coupling pin would hold across the so-called "Bad Lauds" In western North Dakota, by the I American Locomotive company for the ! Northern Pacific railway. It has 22 wheels and. Including the I tender which holds 21, 1)00 gallons ot I waier nnd 27 tons of coal. Is 125 feet long and weighs 1.116.000 pounds. It Is so monstrous that one Is Inclined to say, like the man In the zoo who saw a giraffe for the first time. "Shucks, there ain't no such nnimule!" The details of this mastodon of the rails read somewhat like a fairy tale. The boiler, for Instance (s almost al-most 0-1 feet long, weighs IGfilXHl pounds. Its Inside diameter ut the small or front end Is 8' feet and Is Intended to operate at 2")0 pounds steam pressure; 20.000 holes were drilled in It and fi.loS stay-bolts are used to hold Its seams together Its fire box Is 22 feet long and 9V4 feet wide larger than an ordinary room Because of Its tremendous size nnd power both the throttle nnd reversing mechanisms nre operated by com pressed air Coal can he mechanically fed Into its seething furnace at the rate of 45.000 pounds or 22, tons an hour and twin centrlfn gal pumps are capable of forcing 100. 000 pounds or 12.000 gallons of water Into its holler In the same time. I(c5. 1929 Western Newp-jnner Union.) |