. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . States Manufactured (olely by JANES B. SIPE & (0. Nertb Side, PITTSBURGH Rl|! A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances VoL XXIIL 114 Liberty Street, New York, September, 1910. No. 9 By Rail to the Himalayas. limited to 32 first-class passengers, Ganges. This train is composed of Such great iiiiprovenuius liave re- the balance of the train being required handsome bogie carriages and carries cently been made in Indian railway for the Postal service. Th
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . States Manufactured (olely by JANES B. SIPE & (0. Nertb Side, PITTSBURGH Rl|! A Practical Journal of Motive Power, Rolling Stock and Appliances VoL XXIIL 114 Liberty Street, New York, September, 1910. No. 9 By Rail to the Himalayas. limited to 32 first-class passengers, Ganges. This train is composed of Such great iiiiprovenuius liave re- the balance of the train being required handsome bogie carriages and carries cently been made in Indian railway for the Postal service. The train leaves all classes of passengers. It is usually travel that it is now possible for the the Victoria terminal, Bombay, as soon hauled by a four-coupled bogie express tourist to see Mount Everest and get as the mails are on board and makes locomotive with cylinders iSA ins. in within 200 miles of the forbidden holy a fast and direct run to Calcutta, diameter by 26 ins. stroke and driving city of Lhassa with no more trouble where it usually arrives early on a wheels (> ft. in (; or TIIK LOurS on hie IJAKJKliLl.\\\ than that incurred in a trip 10 Switzer-land or Italy. For the Imperial mail service betweenBombay and Calcutta a magnificent newTrain-de-Iuxc is provided by theGreat Indian Prninsula and Ea<t IndianRailways. It is entirely composed ofsleeping cars, with a restaurant, and is Sunday morning, as 36 hours is the timeallowed for the journey. The express of the East-ern Bengal State Railway leaves theScaldah terminus, Calcutta, l6:j6 oclockand rearlirs Damookdcah. a distanceof 116 miles. This point is the terminusof the broad gauge on the banks of the The Ganges is crossed on a large flat-bottomed paddle steamer, and dinner isserved on the passage across. It isvery difficult to secure good landingjetties, owing to the shifting characterof the sands forming the river banks. The narrow gauge, 3 ft. 3)i ins., ter-m
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