. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . lately turned outof the Poutilovsky Locomotive & MachineWorks, near St. Petersburg. This loco-motive, as one can perceive by the photo-graph (No. l), is one of the latest master- 95 Liberty Street, New York, March. 1899 riu total weight of the train, with engineand tender complete, was tons, tons without engine and tender. Thetrial took place between St. Petersburgand Pskov, a distance of vcrsts( miles), and the average speed versts ( miles) an hour, (
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . lately turned outof the Poutilovsky Locomotive & MachineWorks, near St. Petersburg. This loco-motive, as one can perceive by the photo-graph (No. l), is one of the latest master- 95 Liberty Street, New York, March. 1899 riu total weight of the train, with engineand tender complete, was tons, tons without engine and tender. Thetrial took place between St. Petersburgand Pskov, a distance of vcrsts( miles), and the average speed versts ( miles) an hour, ( miles) an hour being thehighest speed attained. Before this locomotive came in. the fast No. 3 steamers whistle, which was to be usedin the open country, and the other of softtone, for use in stations. This type ofcompound engines was quite a novelty onthe St. Petersburg & Warsaw driving wheels were much larger thanin the former ones, and these engineswere intended for fast service only. An older type of Russian locomotivestill doing excellent work on the TAXUEM COMPOUND. ST. PETERSBTRG & WARSAW RAILWAY. pieces of Russian engineering, the .Assist-ant Minister of Ways and Communica-tions, Mr. Petroff, having himself takenpart in its designing. We may venture tosay that this engine is destined to becomea standard type on the Russian Staterailways, as sixty-seven locomotives havebeen ordered from the Poutilovsky Loco-motive & Machine Works, of which thirtyare intended to reinforce the rolling stockof the St. Petersburg & Warsaw results of the trials were verj satis-factory. The train consisted of nine cars,eight of which were of the bogie system. passenger service was performed by a typeof compound locomotive built by the Kolo-mensky Locomotive & Jtlachine Works,near Moscow. This type was broughtout in 1891. The locomotive provedsatisfactory in all respects, but assome of them were sent to the GreatSiberian Railway, the company or-dered the type
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