. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . n 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
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . n 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 the entire early locomotives were nearly allof the British type, with inside gauge is standard, 4 ft. S/i ins., andthe equipment generally is excellent, andthe railroad rates are a little lower thanin the United States. The British en-gineers and machinists are being replaced. CONSOLIDATION OIL BURNING LOCOMOTIVE .\T TICLIO. OROYA RAILROAD. Copyright by Brown iS; Dawson .Tnd K. M. Newman. The railroad begins at Ihiancayo, distant217 miles, on the Atlantic side of theAndes. The road rises steadily from sealevel with an average grade of 4 per cent.,much of it through solid rock, to its high-est point at Ticlio, which is about 1,000feet higher than Pikes Peak. There arein all 65 tunnels and 67 bridges, all of but the most picturesque railroad in theworld. It is interesting to note that thisextraordinary ascent is made without theuse of a single foot of rack line. On thedownward journey the passenger trainsare piloted by a hand car, equipped, as isthe whole of the rolling stock on the rail-way, with the most powerful brakes, and occasionally by Americans, and Americanlocomotives are being very favorablyspoken of, and bid fair to replace the old-er British type
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