. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . se short runs. In addition, thelocal tracks are used by Framingham and Worcesterlocals. These facts help to explain why the South Station inBoston is such a busy place! Recent reports that the B. & A. is to have further ****** 9 53* Wr ^^p^Jhk^B skflKnr— n—*—^sss^ i*-wV Jfi L-1-a Type Locomotive of the Boston & Albany at Newton, Mass. tank engines—this time of the 4-6-6 type—show that themethod of handling suburban business is to lie the sameas heretofore, only more so! On the Albany Division
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . se short runs. In addition, thelocal tracks are used by Framingham and Worcesterlocals. These facts help to explain why the South Station inBoston is such a busy place! Recent reports that the B. & A. is to have further ****** 9 53* Wr ^^p^Jhk^B skflKnr— n—*—^sss^ i*-wV Jfi L-1-a Type Locomotive of the Boston & Albany at Newton, Mass. tank engines—this time of the 4-6-6 type—show that themethod of handling suburban business is to lie the sameas heretofore, only more so! On the Albany Division—, west of Springfield—local passenger trains are handled by Pacific type loco-motives of the older classes. Train Xo. 44 is shown inan accompanying photograph. The engine is No. 538, ofClass K-e, and built at the Schenectady Works of theAmerican Locomotive Company in 1908. Cylinders22x26 inches; drivers 7? inches in diameter; weight,without tender, 238,000 lbs. I have selected this photograph for a special will be observed that the train consists of four Eastbound Local No. 44 of the Boston & Albany at Huntington. Mass. No doubt, some readers who see it will make caustic re-marks about the use of a Pacific type engine on such alight run: so we might as well answer their criticisms inadvance. The assignment of motive power on any road involvesa great deal more than the weight of any one train. Forexample, an engine may have a light turn today be-cause nothing else is available. Tomorrow, the same en- gine may be called upon to handle a much heavier fluctuations and exigencies of traffic are responsiblefor this. Another thing: Engines just out of the shop arebroken in on light runs. Furthermore, engines due foroverhaul finish out their mileage on light jobs. All thisis plain, common sense! . Even when a Pacific type engine is regularly assignedto a light run, there is some good reason therefor. Rail-road men are not the chumps- that
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