. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Stock and Appliances Vol. XXV. 114 Liberty Street. New York, December, 1912. No. 12 On the Great Northern growing popularity of the GreatNorthern Railway has been amply demon-strated during the year which is just clos-ing, and the amount of freight that haspassed over the road is far in excess ofthe record of any previous season. Thisis particularly true in regard to the powerful type, while the augmentations tothe rolling stock are even proportionatelygreater. There are now over
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Stock and Appliances Vol. XXV. 114 Liberty Street. New York, December, 1912. No. 12 On the Great Northern growing popularity of the GreatNorthern Railway has been amply demon-strated during the year which is just clos-ing, and the amount of freight that haspassed over the road is far in excess ofthe record of any previous season. Thisis particularly true in regard to the powerful type, while the augmentations tothe rolling stock are even proportionatelygreater. There are now over twelvehundred locomotives, and more than fiftythousand cars of various types. Amongthe locomotives it is interesting to ob-serve that the William Crooks, theoldest locomotive in the Northwest, and of locomotives, and is shown on a trackimmediately adjoining one of the newMallet type of locomotives that are nowbeing used by the Great Northern inhauling heavy train loads of freight onits mountain division. A group of maga-zine and newspaper men is shown, thecentral figure outlined against the right. THE ORIENTAL LIMITED. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY, CROSSING THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, ON THE STONE ARCH BRIDGE,BETWEEN ST. PAUL, MINN., AND MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. amount of bread stuffs from the fertilefields of the Northwest. The generaltraffic manager claims that the recordscf the amount of wheat traffic passingover the road excels that of all of theother railroads having a terminal in Chi-cago, put together. The equipment hasbeen supplemented by the addition of overcne hundred new locomotives of the most w Inch was placed in service on the oldSi Paul & Pacific Railroad in 1861, isstill in service. We take pleasure inreproducing a photograph showing thispioneer locomotive which has a recordof more than half a century of service,and with proper repairs bids fair toround out the century. As will be notedit is number one, on the companys list fnmt cylinder of the Mallet being W. Hill, Chairm
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