Heaviest Passenger Engine.

Progress, Volume II, Issue 2, 1 December 1906, Page 67

Heaviest Passenger Engine.

What is said to be the heaviest passenger engine ever built has been delivered to the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad. It weighs 244,700 lbs., of which 170,000 lbs. are on the driving wheels. The engine and tender weigh 403,700 lbs , and the capacity for water is 7,800 gals., while that for coal is 1 5 tons. This powerful locomotive was designed as a step in the development of large passenger locomotives on the Lake Shore Road, which began about seven years ago, as a result of which this road has a series of successful designs. The Walschaerts gear has been generally adopted because of favourable experience in both freight and passenger service. The new locomotive is entirely free from untried devices or principles.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear , Small sands the mountain moments make the year, And trifles, hie. — Edward Young.