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Show ma engines The Union Pacific is now receiving its sport model engines, and they are surely big fellows, and the boys that will pick up big trains and walk away with them. The engines which are to be used on the Los Angeles division will be the 7850 to and including the 7859. These will be oil burners, while the other six, from 7860 on up, will be coal burners for the Salt Lake division. divi-sion. The engines are beauties and are powerful In structure. They are about twentv feet longer than the 2700 class. The cylinders are 29x28; weight on the drivers 230,000 pound weight on the drivers 230,000 lbs, and with the tank the weight is 345,-000 345,-000 pounds. The engine and tender are 79 feet 11 1-2 inches, and makes it impossible to handle the engine on the transfer table, and they have to be turned on the "Y" and can only be run Into the round house on the one track, the straight one that passes over the table directly into the house The heating surface of the monster is 6937 square feet; grate area, 6 4 square feet: boiler pressure, 200 pounds; tractive power 54,834 lbs. The tank holds 12,000 gallons of water wa-ter and 20 tons of coal, which is a little over three tons more than the next largest engine, the 2700 class. In the place of four wheels to the truck, the tank has six wheels to the truck. The engine has four sets of drivers 75 inches in diameter. The front engiue trucks have four wheels in the place of two. Caliente News. |