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Show !L0NG runs made BY FREIGHT ENGINES CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 12. After Af-ter a week's test, J. D. Bell, superintendent super-intendent of the terminal here, de-j clared Tuesday an experiment of thol Big Four railroad in running freight locomotives through from St. Louis I to Cleveland, a distance of 32 nilbs. I without change, has proved succcsh-I succcsh-I ful. Officials of railroads here believe be-lieve the run to be the longest over attempted in freight nervier They will bo continued on certain classes Of freight Indefinitely. Air Hell saldrj Sixty-one cars were carried on the H first eastward trip, Mr Bell ?ald. Tho experiment is belitnod new In American railroading. The big ad-vantage, ad-vantage, it is said, is the much greater service obt lined from one lo-romotlve. lo-romotlve. Instead of four englnex-being englnex-being tied up at the end of a run efe formerly, under the new arrange-mint arrange-mint only one is rent to the round house Crews are changed as usual at division points. |