| Show I l I GREAT ENGINES NOW IN OGDEN Largest Locomotives in World At Attracting Attracting Attention Locally Are Capable of Pulling Heavy Train of Cars Mile and Half Long Remain Till Monday The two now new n w ton freight en engines glues gines for Cor the mountain districts of or orthe the Southern Pacific system arrived over oyer tho lie Union Pacific road last night and will probably remain on exhibition ex c In the Ogdon Ogden yards until Mon Men Monday Monda day da afternoon before they thoy are aro sent west wesl to Sparks Sparl s to bo be fired up tip with w crude oil 01 from Crom tho the tanks at that point Tho rhe locomotives are firo the largest heaviest and most powerful over ever con constructed constructed constructed and find In III their trip westward from Irom tho lie great Greal Baldwin locomotive works at al Philadelphia have excited the lie keenest attention from rom railroad officials o and along alon the tho route Tho The weight of each engine Is IB I G pounds engine and tender combined com combined binell pounds tho ho cylinders 30 and 10 30 Inches According to d local 10 11 railroad men their weight exceeds that thal of oC tho the heaviest he existing Mallet engine by about ton ten tons They The are of the th Mallet articulated type are arc ar compounded and are arc fitted for or burning oil While they do not form Corm a radical departure In type they tho contain some Home notable details of oC construction and anI among these two striking Innovations In the first place the tho boiler contains a healer heater besides an Inter Intermediate IntermedIate intermediate mediate and secondly tho the boiler bollor Is separable at al a bolted Joint about midway of Its Us length at tho front of oC the boiler hailer shell proper This last feature enables the whole engine to bo be cut In two lengthwise with but little labor or time lime so that lint lintin In the tho repair shop for example the two parts parIs can be handled separately Tho Tito engine must bo ho dead deall of or course before It can bo lie cut cul apart nail and all aU the piping between he tween front and rear hal r must be disconnected unions being built I Into the pipes for this purpose The lire capacity of each engine Is sail Soll to bo be 1 0 almost unlimited and ami either cither ol of the two great monsters will haul from Crom to cars over a track consul ered ordinarily level loel and m JU good con condition While the engines remain at Ogden 0 Ither they thoy will be the center of attraction for railroad men shop horl men and ma machinIsts machinists as well as ag for others inter interested interested interested ested In Improved mechanical device of every over character In the lie general construction each of oC the tho two sections has four coupled 1 os the front section has bias a n two wheel loading truck and tae Q rear sec ion has a n 1 wheel trailing track keeps the wheel loads relatively relative moderate The load on drivers SOI 9 I pounds averages per wheel while the load on truck truel wheels averages and IT II r wheel for front and rear trucks re reo respectively respectively These figures are arc lower than found in tho rho heaviest consolida consolidation ion tion freight engines and in some somo pat pas locomotives where tho lie wheel loads Teach Touch pounds Tho The now no have two sets of or drive wheels and two sets of cylinders ders tiers With tho rho monster water valor tank attached the lie engine In Its entirety Is nearly nearl If IC not nol quite quilo double the length l of tho rho heaviest freight engine now in service on the Salt SaIL Lake Lako division of o otho tho the Southern Pacific |
