. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ashing-ton, Idaho and Montana, where severalaltitudes of nearly two miles have tobe attained, some idea of the gigantictask may be readily imagined. Theprincipal delays, however, did not oc-cur in the widely circuitous windings RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. January, 1912. among the mountains, but in the cities,particularly in St. Paul and Chicago,which together occasioned delays ofnearly 3 hours. It is also worthy of note that theequipment is unsurpassed in the ele-gance of the accommod
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ashing-ton, Idaho and Montana, where severalaltitudes of nearly two miles have tobe attained, some idea of the gigantictask may be readily imagined. Theprincipal delays, however, did not oc-cur in the widely circuitous windings RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. January, 1912. among the mountains, but in the cities,particularly in St. Paul and Chicago,which together occasioned delays ofnearly 3 hours. It is also worthy of note that theequipment is unsurpassed in the ele-gance of the accommodation for pas-senger transportation, and not to bebehind other American institutions inhigh-sounding titles the special train isnow known as The Million Dollar SilkTrain, and is earning golden opinionsfrom the traveling public. The loco-motive in the illustration, as will benoted, is a Baldwin Pacific, equippedwith the Walschaerts valve gear. Thesepowerful locomotives are admirablysuited for the heavy climbing work en-countered in the Rockies, while in pointof speed some of the level flats of Mon-. GGCULD MOUNTAIN. AS SEEN FROMGRINNELL MOUNTAIN. tana and North Dakota are traversedat a velocity that equals anything ac-complished anywhere in the world. Apart from the rapidity and comfortwith which the journey from coast tocoast may now be made on the SilkTrain, the scenic wonders, especiallyin the West, are of a kind that neverfail to strike even the most indifferentbeholder with amazement. FromMount Rainier National Park, inWashington, to the Glacier NationalPark, in Montana, there is a world ofpicturesque grandeur and bewilderingbeauty that can be seen nowhere ex-cept in America. While the gorgeouscoloring of the fall season adds to therichness of the scene, it is at all timesa wonderland, and it is a matter of sur-prise to many that thousands of Ameri-cans flock yearly to the comparatively
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