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Show oo ENGINES COST $60,000 EACH There was a time when engines operating op-erating on the Union Pacific were capable- of hauling not more than 20 or 30 loaded cars out of Ogden, even with the assistance of a "helper" for the heavier grades. Sine then locomotives loco-motives have been greatly increased in size and have much more power. Recently a prosperity train of locomotives loco-motives was sen I west, made up of 50 of the most powerful and efficient ma chines ever turned out of a shop It must be this tvpe of engine which the Union Pacific i3 buying as the order just placed with the Baldwin Icomo-Mv Icomo-Mv worka calls for fifteen locomo tives at a cost of $60,000 each. Railroading is not what It was forty years ago. In the old days an engineer engi-neer whistled for brakes, instead of applying the air The fireman went out on the running board to oil the valves and the brakeman and conduc-lor conduc-lor had to have sufficient muscle to twist a brake Today a single engine pulls a train of 100 cars, and the whole train at all -times 1 under control of the man who sits on the rirht side In the cab The opening of a throttle moves the ponderous machines vviih Its load and the turning of a lever brings the on rushing train of great momentum to a rjuick 6top. Super heated steam, air, oil and half a dozen other improvements improve-ments have worked a miraclr in transportation |