. American engineer and railroad journal . Amer-ican Locomotive Company, which were practically identical withthe previous order, with the exception of the boiler, which in thiscase included a combustion chamber, 3 ft. in length, and a reduc-tion in the number and length of flues. One of these locomotiveswas equipped with a Schenectady superheater. These locomotiveswere fully illustrated in this journal October, 1906, page two months later the same company turned out two bal-anced compound Pacific type locomotives for the Northern Pa-cific, which at that time were the heaviest locomo
. American engineer and railroad journal . Amer-ican Locomotive Company, which were practically identical withthe previous order, with the exception of the boiler, which in thiscase included a combustion chamber, 3 ft. in length, and a reduc-tion in the number and length of flues. One of these locomotiveswas equipped with a Schenectady superheater. These locomotiveswere fully illustrated in this journal October, 1906, page two months later the same company turned out two bal-anced compound Pacific type locomotives for the Northern Pa-cific, which at that time were the heaviest locomotives everbuilt, weighing 240,000 lbs. These engines also had combustionchambers and included the Walschaert valve gear. They wereillustrated on page 411 of the November, 1906, issue of thisjournal. At this time this company then had in operation Pacific typelocomotives of practically identical power as follows: Simpleengines without combustion chamber or superheater; simple en-gines with combustion chamber and without superheater; simple. ELEVATION AND SECTIONS—PACIFIC TYPE LOCOMOTIVE—NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY. May, 1909. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 195
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