. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . essing a mystic sig-nificance. RlilSSXiveEisineeriiK Copyright by Angus Sinclair Co.—1909 A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol. XXII. 114 Liberty Street, New York, December, 1909. No. 12 Railroad Pictures from India. locomotives at present in service is miles. During the days of the IndianOn the leading railways of India the shown in Fig. i, which represents a Mutiny engines of the Fawn typepractice of rebuilding all the old rolling little tank engine, Fawn, b
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . essing a mystic sig-nificance. RlilSSXiveEisineeriiK Copyright by Angus Sinclair Co.—1909 A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol. XXII. 114 Liberty Street, New York, December, 1909. No. 12 Railroad Pictures from India. locomotives at present in service is miles. During the days of the IndianOn the leading railways of India the shown in Fig. i, which represents a Mutiny engines of the Fawn typepractice of rebuilding all the old rolling little tank engine, Fawn, belonging were used to haul the troop trains overstock is being abandoned, and out-of to the East Indian Railway Company the line, and a sister engine, the Ex-date locomotives and cars are being re- and built for them by the old firm of press, now stands on a pedestal out-placed by new plant of modern design Slaughter. Gunning & Co., at Bristol, side the Jamalpur shops of the Eastand construction. The chief railways in 1857; it is No. 353 of their build. Indian Railway, with the following in-. \ R iiiKiA I i;R.\iixfs (II- Tin-: \ .\t are the property of the state, but areoperated by different companies underguarantee, the expenditure being con-trolled by a government present there are upwards of 28roads under construction. At this transition stage, the Indianrailways offer some interesting speci-mens of early types of equipment aswell as modern stock. One of the oldest Tlirec of these engines were built andnamed Multum in Parvo, Fawn andSnake. They had cylinders 14 x 22ins., driving wheels 6 ft. 6 ins. in di-ameter, and the leading and trailingwliecls 4 ft. in diameter. Total weight29 tons. Locomotives of this type wereused on the railway soon after it wasopened between Howrah (Calcutta)and Raneegange, a distance of 125-54 scription below it; This locomotivewas the first which ran on the East In-dian Railway between Howra
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