. Book of the Royal blue . CLASS -E-IS. COMPOUND CONSOLIDATION FREIGHT ENGINES. WITH WOOTTENKIREBOXES. WEIOHT roUNDS. llj IN CSE. Ohio weigh nearly ninety tons. Not literally of them are pullinggreat 3,000-ton trains over divisions whichfive years ago a 1,000-ton train was themaximum and a great rarity. A person unaccustomed to movementsof traffic, and not associated with railwaymanagement, can hardly realize the greatexpendituie necessary to enable a railroad in one lot, an extraordinary order from arailroad that at that time was doing extra-ordinary things. The brid
. Book of the Royal blue . CLASS -E-IS. COMPOUND CONSOLIDATION FREIGHT ENGINES. WITH WOOTTENKIREBOXES. WEIOHT roUNDS. llj IN CSE. Ohio weigh nearly ninety tons. Not literally of them are pullinggreat 3,000-ton trains over divisions whichfive years ago a 1,000-ton train was themaximum and a great rarity. A person unaccustomed to movementsof traffic, and not associated with railwaymanagement, can hardly realize the greatexpendituie necessary to enable a railroad in one lot, an extraordinary order from arailroad that at that time was doing extra-ordinary things. The bridges fixed, the rail, mostly sixty-seven pounds to the yard, must be replacedwith eighty-five pound steel, costing moreand taking many more tons to the rails needed new ties, and while railwas bought in lU,000-ton lots, very fre-. •K-18. COMPOUND FKEIOHT KNOIXE. WEIGHT 40 IN USE. to increase the weight of its motive powerforty per cent and double the load in afreight car. First, every bridge originally erectedto carry safely a 140,000-pound enginemust be reconstructed, if not rebuilt, tocarry a 200,000-pound load. It thus hap-pened new .structures became the rule. Atone time fifty-three bridges were ordered quently the orders for ties read track is good without stone was bought by the 100,OCOcubic yards; and thousands of men, intimes of financial stringency and slacknessof work, put in ballast, tamped ties andspiked rail day after day. until hundredsand hundreds of miles of absolutely newtrack were constructed.
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