. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ESPECIALLY FREPARXSFOR THE ENGINEER WORKS EOUALLT WELL ON HOT and COLD SURFACES CLEANSPOLISHES andPRESERVESALL KINDSOF METALS GEO. WM. HOFFMAN CO. IndianapolisNew York Chicago San Francisoe Send for FREE Sampl*. TtieNorwalk Iron Works Co. SOUTH NORWALK, CONN. Makers of Air and Gas Compressore For All PorposeaSan</ tor Catalog Rlll^iveEiKineerini A Practical Journal of Motive Power. Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol. XXIX. 114 Liberty Street, New York, May, 1916. No. 5 Oroya Railroad in the
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ESPECIALLY FREPARXSFOR THE ENGINEER WORKS EOUALLT WELL ON HOT and COLD SURFACES CLEANSPOLISHES andPRESERVESALL KINDSOF METALS GEO. WM. HOFFMAN CO. IndianapolisNew York Chicago San Francisoe Send for FREE Sampl*. TtieNorwalk Iron Works Co. SOUTH NORWALK, CONN. Makers of Air and Gas Compressore For All PorposeaSan</ tor Catalog Rlll^iveEiKineerini A Practical Journal of Motive Power. Rolling Stock and Appliances Vol. XXIX. 114 Liberty Street, New York, May, 1916. No. 5 Oroya Railroad in the Andes Mountains in PeruThe Highest Railroad in the World The frontispiece illustration shows aview of a powerful oil-burning Consoli-dation locomotive at Ticlio, Peru, with aview of Mount Meigs in the Meigs is 18,000 feet above the sealevel. The locomotive is shown on thehighest point of the Central Railway ofPeru, and is 15,865 feet above sea level. them marvels of construction. There are16 switchbacks, and the largest coppermines in the world, at Cerro de Pasco,are at an altitude of 12,178 feet. Thecountry is gorgeous with its many lakesand glaciers. The vegetation in the val-leys is of the most dazzling brilliance. Itis, without exception, not only the highest also running by gravity t
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