. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Driving wheels—62 inches diameter. An Oil-Burning Engine. The Brooks Locomotive Works havejust turned out from their shops the en-gine shown in our illustration, which isbuilt for the Congress Gold Mining Com-pany, and is designed to burn crude petrol-eum on a new plan, which we expect to de-scribe at no distant date. At the present time the inventor has notcompleted his patents, and will not allowthe details to be shown. The picture tells about all the railroadman cares to know of an engine of thischara
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Driving wheels—62 inches diameter. An Oil-Burning Engine. The Brooks Locomotive Works havejust turned out from their shops the en-gine shown in our illustration, which isbuilt for the Congress Gold Mining Com-pany, and is designed to burn crude petrol-eum on a new plan, which we expect to de-scribe at no distant date. At the present time the inventor has notcompleted his patents, and will not allowthe details to be shown. The picture tells about all the railroadman cares to know of an engine of thischaracter. Wheel base—Driving wheels, 11 feet;engine and tender, 40 feet 6 inches. Weight in working order—Tender,86,000 pounds; weight of engine, 112,000pounds; total weight of engine and tender,198,000 pounds. i i ^ It is not generally known that a famoussinger made the first move towards theestablishing of private cars. In 1851,when the famous Jenny Lind got marriedin this country, she was very much an-noyed during her honeymoon by the in-trusion of impertinent interviewers, and to. STANDARD ERIE TEN-WHEELER.
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