. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . erage running time for a dis-tance of miles was made by bothtrains in 2 hours and 40 minutes, the this line at this time, it would have beennecessary to either double-head or oper-ate in two sections. By the introduction of the Mountaintype locomotives, the Rock Island hasbeen enabled to consolidate the Chicagoand St. Louis sections of one of the Colo-rado trains between Phillipsburg andLimon. This has effected a saving of180,310 passenger train miles per annum. At present these combine
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . erage running time for a dis-tance of miles was made by bothtrains in 2 hours and 40 minutes, the this line at this time, it would have beennecessary to either double-head or oper-ate in two sections. By the introduction of the Mountaintype locomotives, the Rock Island hasbeen enabled to consolidate the Chicagoand St. Louis sections of one of the Colo-rado trains between Phillipsburg andLimon. This has effected a saving of180,310 passenger train miles per annum. At present these combined trains con-sist of 10 to 13 cars, which can be satis-factorily handled by the new Pacifies, ex-cept in extreme weather. Therefore, therehas been no opportunity as yet to testthe Mountain type to its full , it is anticipated that they willhandle 1,000 tons in 16 cars on the cardedtime of these combined trains without dif-ficulty. Their consist, under normal con-ditions, will be 15 and 16 cars, largelysteel equipment, which the Mountain typeLocomotives will ablv handle over the 247. PACIFIC TYPE LOCOMiW. J. Tollerton, Gen. Mech. Supt. Tucumcari, N. M. The maximum gradeper mile from Rock Island, 111., to Phil-lipsburg. is about 60 feet per mile,and from Phillipsburg, Kans., to , is a constant up-hill pull 247 mileslong, the ruling grades being 53 feet tothe mile. Repeated test trains were run to deter-mine the capacity of these Pacific typelocomotives. The results, as comparedwitli the carded time of several regulartrains, were all largely in favor of thenew locomotives. The regular train, as No. 5, taking 5 hours and 16minutes on the westward, up-grade trip,was made during several tests in 4 hoursand 47 minutes. The average schedulespeed of the regular trains being per hour, being made with the newlocomotives at a speed of miles perhour. The number of cars were also in-creased from 11 to 12, the average weightof cars being
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