. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. ng-ton, Idaho and Montana, where several,>ltitudes of nearly two miles have tobe attained, some idea of the gigantictask may be readily imagined. Theprincipal delays, however, did not oc-cur in the widely circuitous windings RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. January, 1912. among the mountains, but in the cities,particularly in St. Paul and Chicago,which together occasioned delays ofnearly 3 hours. It is also worthy of note that theequipment is unsurpassed in the ele-gance of the accommodation for pas-senger transportation, and not to bebehind other Am
. Railway and Locomotive Engineering. ng-ton, Idaho and Montana, where several,>ltitudes of nearly two miles have tobe attained, some idea of the gigantictask may be readily imagined. Theprincipal delays, however, did not oc-cur in the widely circuitous windings RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. January, 1912. among the mountains, but in the cities,particularly in St. Paul and Chicago,which together occasioned delays ofnearly 3 hours. It is also worthy of note that theequipment is unsurpassed in the ele-gance of the accommodation for pas-senger transportation, and not to bebehind other American institutions inhigh-sounding titles the special train isnow known as The Million Dollar SilkTrain, and is earning golden opinionsfrom the traveling public. The loco-motive in the illustration, as will benoted, is a Baldwin Pacific, equippedwith the Walschaerts valve gear. Thesepowerful locomotives are admirablysuited for the heavy climbing work en-countered in the Rockies, while in pointof speed some of the level flats of Mon-.
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