AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES.

Evening Star, Issue 11656, 17 September 1901, Page 7

AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES.

The 'Railway Review' gives the following description of a new locomotive now at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York: A new ten-wheeled freight locomotive built bj- the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Illinois Central Railwav. Gauge, 4ft BJin, same as English railways. Length of engine and tender over all, 65ft 6in. Extreme height, 14ft HAin. Weight of engine, 167,8801b. Weight of tender, 118.0001b. Total weight, 285,8801b (say 174 tons 14cwt). Diameter of cylinders, 20in by 28in. Diameter of driving wheels, sft 3in. Capacity of tender tank, 5,000ga1. Coal capacity of tender, 12 tons. The heaviest locomotive in the world is in America, .and weighs 391,4001b. The last 'Locomotive Engineering' cf August, 1901, gives the following:—The New York Central Railways Atlantic type of locomotive: Total weight of engine, 176,0001b; diameter of cvhnders, 21 in bv 26m, which, with 2001b" bojler pressure", gives 24,000 pounds tractive force; diameter of driving wheels, 79in; extreme length of engine and tender, 53ft. The boiler contains 396 tubes of 2in diameter 2 n n d n « 16 ( fc long ' Ca P aci ty of tender tank, 5.000 gal; capacity of tender for coal, 10 tons. Tins engine, No. 2,979, left Albany on the 24th of June last with No. 15 train at 5.2 p.m., forty-two minutes late, with a tram of three mail cars, two ordinary cars, one buffet car, one dining car, two sleepers—total, nine—and arrived at Syracuse on time at 7.55 p.m.. Running time, 2 hours 53min; time per schedule, 6 hours 35min; made up, 42min. The weight of the train, including the ensrine. was 590 tons. b