. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . een furnished tothe company by the Baldwin Loco-motive Works. The first engines builtwere of a type that was used on allclasses of traflSc and weighed about 30tons. They had a four wheel truckin front with four driving wheels andfor the mixed passenger and freighttraflic of that period were very service-able engines. Stronger locomotiveswere found necessary when the South-ern Pacific division of the line wasopened and grades of over 300 feet per 434 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER NG Septembe
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . een furnished tothe company by the Baldwin Loco-motive Works. The first engines builtwere of a type that was used on allclasses of traflSc and weighed about 30tons. They had a four wheel truckin front with four driving wheels andfor the mixed passenger and freighttraflic of that period were very service-able engines. Stronger locomotiveswere found necessary when the South-ern Pacific division of the line wasopened and grades of over 300 feet per 434 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER NG September, 1906. mile hail to be climbed. The lirst ofthe consolidation and ten wbecl enginesthen appeared. They weighed about 60tons and with the lirst and third drivershaving plain tires these engines couldreadily round the sharpest curves. In the early 8os the necessity for stilllarger locomotive became greater withthe rapidly increasing volume of trans-portation and previous to 1890, overone hundred ten wheel locomotives forboth passenger and freight service weresupplied to the syr-tcm. besides a num-. R\cK FOR LIFTING ROLLER BRIDGE OVERNE\V.\RK BAY—C. R. R. OF N. J. lu-r of six wheel switching engines. In1898 the first engines built with caststeel frames were furnished to thec^iiiipany by the Baldvjin LocomotiveWorks. The weight of the locomotiveshad now reached to 80 tons and it wasthen thought that the limit of weighthad been reached, but in the meantimea rapid developrnent in the weight andpower of heavy freight locomotiveswas taking place. The balanced com-pound was coming into favor and of and 54 minutes, averaging perhour. Ihis feat is not rivalled by anyrecord of long distance running, andrcllects the highest credit on the enter-prise of the railway company and theadmirable constructive ability of theBaldwin Works. A copy of this pam-phlet may be had on application to thebuilders. The Watson-Stillman Company, ofXew York, have just issued a new cata-logue No. 6
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