. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ompany, and are designedfor pusher service on the Wilkes-Barre driving wheels of 2^3,000 lbs. A singleClass E-5 engine can very satisfactorilyhandle a 2,600-ton train from Ararat toOneonta, but it requires tlie assistance oftwo locomotives of the same class, aspushers, to haul this load up the 20-milegrade to Ararat, at which point the push-ers cut loose. With this power a speedof about 10 miles per hour can be main-tained on the six miles of ruling gradefrom Carbondale to Forest City, and as
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ompany, and are designedfor pusher service on the Wilkes-Barre driving wheels of 2^3,000 lbs. A singleClass E-5 engine can very satisfactorilyhandle a 2,600-ton train from Ararat toOneonta, but it requires tlie assistance oftwo locomotives of the same class, aspushers, to haul this load up the 20-milegrade to Ararat, at which point the push-ers cut loose. With this power a speedof about 10 miles per hour can be main-tained on the six miles of ruling gradefrom Carbondale to Forest City, and aspeed of 15 miles per hour over the re-maining 14 miles of the ascent. In the fall of last year one of the heax-yMallet engines built by the .-\mcrican Lo-comotive Company for the Eric Railroadwas borrowed and put into pusher serviceon the 20-mile Ararat grade. A numberof test runs were made, which provedthat a single Erie Mallet engine easilydid the work of two of the D. & 11. ClassE-5 consolidation locomotives. Follow-ing these tests six Mallet engines wereordered from the American Locomotive. HYDRAULIC AT ON THE ERIli, IIUKING THE FLOOD.(Courtesy of the Erie Railroad Employes Magazine.) & Susquehanna division of the D. & H.,between Carbondale, Pa., and Oneonta,N. Y. On these divisions there is a heavymovement of freight traffic, consistingmostly of loaded coal trains. The gradeconditions on this portion of the road aresevere, and sharp curves are northbound traffic, in which direc-tion practically all the movement of loadedfreight trains takes place, there is a six-mile grade of per cent, from Carbon-dale to Forest City. Prom the latter pointto Ararat, the summit of the rise, a dis-tance of 14 mile*, the road is on a gradeaveraging per cent. Going down theother side of the mountain it is practicallya continuous grade of ft. per mile, for7S miles into Oneonta. Hitherto the freight traffic on this divi-sion has been handl
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