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Show uTpIending big engines Largest Locomotives In World to Be Used Out of Ogden (Special Dispatch) r li u.A Keb" Dec- 18 Fifty-five 01 me bgK. si passenger locomotives ever built will be used by the Union ' aciric system to move the heavy winter win-ter travel to the west, according to announcement an-nouncement hero in making on.' or the most gigantic motive power equipment orders ever placed by an American railroad. Bach of the 55 wm bo a duplicate of mammoth No. 7000. the largest passenger pass-enger locomotive In the world. All of them wll be p,,t into servli - hem. en Ogden and Denver Ogden and Cheyenne Chey-enne and ( ipden and Los Angeles. FIRST ONLJ READY The blp order Is the result of the success attending the operative tests 01 No. 7000 pulling the crack LOS An-peles An-peles limited westward over the mountains moun-tains from Cheyenne. The first ol its f4 twin brothers will arrl'v in m;n:i about December BO, on th.- way . to their runs, where they will supercede super-cede the big Pacific type engines now in use, which, however, are dwarfed by their successors. Where tt has been necessary for two of these; to pull trane-contlnental trains over the mountains, one of th'-new th'-new ones will maintain tin e..n iim: schedules of the fast and heavy California Cali-fornia bound lluilteds. With a height from rails to smokestack smoke-stack of 15 feet 10 Inches, and just under un-der 100 feet in length, the new mammoths mam-moths which weigh almoei 30H tons each and :iro nmiulla aIV ,irl. wheels, having diameters Of 6 feet 1 inch .are Indisputably the "big boys'" of American railroading H TOM TK STOKERS But, despite their tremendous size, they are favorably comparable to the average automobile', as th v weigh but 'HS'i pounds per horsepower Controlling Control-ling equipment Is not much larger than that of the ordinary street 1 ur, Inside the cab, the actual lovers being so huge that they are controlled by steam, as on a battleship Nino of the 65 are oil burners, assigned as-signed to the Eos Angeles and Salt Lake portion of the Union Pacific system, sys-tem, tho others using coal for fuel It Is fed to the fireboxes through automatic auto-matic stokers. Locomotives of the heavy Pacific 'type and the giant Mlkados with j which they are double-headed on mountain grades. In fast passenger 1 traffic, will all be replaced by the new "Leviathans of the- hills." The Pacifies Paci-fies will be assigned to Kansas City and Dcner, for use of the flat country coun-try of Colorado and Kansas, and to Omaha, where they will supplant the Might Pacifies now in use in hauling I transcontinental llmiteds westward. The Mlkados Will go into freight service, ser-vice, and tho light Pacifies will be transferred to local trains and branch lines where present light equipment will be discarded. |