. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e about the capitalists decidedto adopt the narrow gauge, which was4 ft. 8/2 ins., now known as the stand-ard, that then having much greatermileage than any other gauge. Thatdecision was a mistake, for the gaugeis too narrow for admitting the kind ofboiler a large locomotive ought to beprovided with. As the locomotives usedon the standard gauge are increasedto their full capacity, which has alreadybeen reached in some instances, therailroad world will realize that a 6 would be better
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e about the capitalists decidedto adopt the narrow gauge, which was4 ft. 8/2 ins., now known as the stand-ard, that then having much greatermileage than any other gauge. Thatdecision was a mistake, for the gaugeis too narrow for admitting the kind ofboiler a large locomotive ought to beprovided with. As the locomotives usedon the standard gauge are increasedto their full capacity, which has alreadybeen reached in some instances, therailroad world will realize that a 6 would be better than the exist-ing standard. OPERATING OF ERIE BEGINS. The first section of the Erie openedfor business, which was in 1841, wasthat between Piermont and Goshen,but trains had been run for a fewmonths previously to Ramapo. Thecompany had purchased three enginesfrom Norris, the Eleazar Lord, thePiermont and the Rockland. Theywere eight-wheel engines with Buryboilers and no cabs. The cylinderswere 13x20 inches, the driving wheelsabout 5 feet and the Eleazar Lordweighed about 30,000 pounds, while the. BALDWINS FIRST EIGHT-WHEEL CONNECTED ENGINEFOR ERIE RAILROAD. ROGERS FIRST TEN-WHEELER FOR ERIE RAILROAD. tablished. The settling of a gaugelikely to prove most convenient for thebusiness to be done with due consider-ation as to cost, is an engineering prob-lem which ought to have received care-ful study and profound calculation. In-stead of that the gauge has been gen-erally decided by some trifling whimor accident. In 1840 there were 33 separate rail-ways in the British Isles with 1,552miles of track and they had five differ-ent gauges, ranging from 4 ft. 8^ 7 ft.—the narrowest gauge havingmore mileage than all the others. Thatwas George Stephensons gauge, and itwas established in a curious way. Thegate ways of the first coal railway op-erated by Stephenson engines had open-ings just suflSciently wide enough to per-mit wheels to pass extending 5 ft. Atthat time the flange
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