. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . square feet. Heating surface—Firebox. squarefeet; tubes, inside, square feet;total, square feet. Weight—Empty. 108,864 pounds ; in ser-vice, 118,160 pounds: adhesive, : engine and tender, service, 192,640pounds. The engine was tested on the StateRailway before being sent to Paris. Pull- RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING March, 1901. ing a through train of forty axles and swallowing the revenues that rightly be- Hill is a man whose word is law. because 6
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . square feet. Heating surface—Firebox. squarefeet; tubes, inside, square feet;total, square feet. Weight—Empty. 108,864 pounds ; in ser-vice, 118,160 pounds: adhesive, : engine and tender, service, 192,640pounds. The engine was tested on the StateRailway before being sent to Paris. Pull- RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING March, 1901. ing a through train of forty axles and swallowing the revenues that rightly be- Hill is a man whose word is law. because 672,000 pounds weight, on a horizontal long to railroad companies. Not long ago he has demonstrated his ability to make a track, a speed of 56 miles was maintained; he declared that no express companies railroad He built up the Great Nor- on a gradient of i in 200 the speed was should be recognized by the railroads and thern without one cent of government aid, mile>. The locomotive started easily that every cent of revenue derived from when the subsidized railroads were not Fig. 9. CYLINDERS AND V.\L7E GEAR—GERMAN FOUR-CYLINDER ENGINE. and smoothly, and continued to run quiet-ly when the speed was raised to a maxi-mum of miles. Against Express Companies. People who have much to do with ex-press companies will not be melancholyon learning the news that the privilegeslong enjoyed by express companies arelikely to be greatly curtailed. Mr. JamesJ. Hill is opposed to express companies traffic should go into the coffers of therailroad treasury. He carried this ruleinto practice on the Great Northern sys-tem, and says that he will enforce it onevery road which he controls. It is saidnow that the three big express companiesare to be ousted and that the railways willbegin to carry express matter under theirown rules and regulations and receive theenormous profits that now go to the ex-press companies. Tliis is Hills idea, and earning enough money to pay for cutt
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