. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 72^4 MODERN EXPRESS PASSENGER POWER ON THE SOUTHERN,ins. in diameter. For the sake of grasping the idea of what these long trainruns mean we may say that the distancebetween Washington and Atlanta is al-most 2V2 million lineal feet, and the driv-ing wheels of the engines hauling themwould in all make more than 180,000 revo-lutions in traveling the distance. The tractive effort of these engines isabout 34,900 lbs., and with a weight of. A GLIMPSE OF THE ROAD TO THE SUNNY SOUTH. York to New Orl
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 72^4 MODERN EXPRESS PASSENGER POWER ON THE SOUTHERN,ins. in diameter. For the sake of grasping the idea of what these long trainruns mean we may say that the distancebetween Washington and Atlanta is al-most 2V2 million lineal feet, and the driv-ing wheels of the engines hauling themwould in all make more than 180,000 revo-lutions in traveling the distance. The tractive effort of these engines isabout 34,900 lbs., and with a weight of. A GLIMPSE OF THE ROAD TO THE SUNNY SOUTH. York to New Orleans, a club car fromWashington to New Orleans, and sleep-ing cars from Norfolk, Va., which areadded to the Limited at Danville. Adining car service is of course part ofthe equipment. A traveler can leave NewYork at half past four in the afternoon 143,690 lbs. resting on the drivers, thefactor of adhesion becomes Theheating surface is in all 3,878^ sq. ft.,and the fuel capacity of the tender isabout 12 tons, and the tank carries 7,500gallons of water. One of our smaller half-tones shows the machine of steel and the very counterpart, except in color, ofthe millionaires southbound express ofwhich Rudyard Kipling tells us when hespeaks of the White Moth that takesthe overflow from the Purple Emperor,tears south with her seven vestibuled1cream-white cars, and like the Emperor,just showing a bar of white light fromthe electrics in the cars and a flicker fromthe nickel-plated hand rail on the rear platform. John Edgar Thomson, E
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