Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-09
4 NEW HIGH-FLYER.
The New English Engine Now in Service
on the Pennsylvania.


1.-The John Bullgine" is the title given to
an English locomotive of the Peacock pat
tern, which the PENNSYLVANIA company i'm
ported from Manchester. II is as ugly as
sin, says the New York Sun. Its plainness
is its first impressive feature, for
it looks like great casting of
black iron all in one piece. The smoke
stack and thC dome and cab are all that
one sees on top of it, cwhile at the sides
il seems to have one big driver in the
mide, set under curved hood, pre-
cisely like Il paddle box on steamboat.
This exposed wheel is one of the for
ward drivers. the back pair of drivers
are hidden under the cab. If ii was not for
the cab the black mass would look like all
the locomotives one sees in England, but
they have no cabs, as every one knows.
Where our cabs are put the English en-
gines have a simple shell of thin
iron with a slender wall. perhaps
eighteen inches wide, at the sides.
This bullgine, or 1920, as she is officially
named, came over without cab, but our
climate is too severe in the winter for en-
gineers and tiremcn TO stand in the open
air. and, therefore. regulation house was
built upon her. y cowcatcher or pilot has
also been added, the English locomotive be-
ing destitute of that important adjunct.
Engineer Kerr, one of the best quick
train engineers on the road, was in the
eau ~ ilci WHICH, Ac
got the bell from the dispatcher. How
is she, She's mighty hard every way"
said he. A man can't get no comfort
on her AT all. How is she different
from the American engines! Why, in
every way, in everything. She's what
they call Il iow-presSure engine. She
has two engines same as ours, one for
each side, but then under the tank she has
u low-pressure engine which. they say,
makes great saving of coal. l
don't know whether that's all they
claim for il. but | DO know that she's often
very hard to start. When her side engines
start. sometimes. the other crank will be on
the center, and then she don't seem to have
power enough to start herself. | have to
back her and start her two or three times
before she'll 20. Our engines will pick up
a tram and walk right out on the jump, you
know
John A Covert, the road foreman, is
graduate from the ranks. Ten years ago
he ran Long Legged Number Ten" He
talked interestingly about the bullgine.
He said that ii was understood that
she was of the best type of English
engine when she was bought. but it has
since been learned that there is i still
better model over there. She was shipped
here III pieces the boiler being in one piece,
of course. She was put together and set
up in Altoona, and has now been running
some time. She is a compound engine.
She has two fourteen-inch high pressure
cylinders to run the near drivers and thir-
ty-inch low-presSure cylinder for the for
NAfd drivers. The steam goes into the high
sYrSSs ure cylinders for the rear drivers. and
is then exhausted into big low-pressure
cylinder which is forward under the
stack. From that the steam exhausts
into the stack She was so stiff
and hard it was impossible for the men to
stay on her ut first She had slight spiral
springs when she came to this country, and
when she was running she would close
up from them so Us to fling the engineer
OF his feet Us he stood on the floor
afssthe CAB. When she flung her
&efgbS down on those springs the jolt
would be something frightful. That would
not do at all, so the spirals were taken out
and new regulation leaf springs, such as
our engines have, were put on her. Now
she rides very easily. She is not so fast
as the Pennsylvania p class engines.
When she is running on their
schedule she will lose few sec
onds in every mile. She is not SO powerful
as our engines. 1t is true that she has
express cars and other lighter cars than
the regular passenger coaches. She is
cranky at starting. The engineers do not
like her or anything about her, but two of
them-kerr and Hartnan-have not al
lowed prejudice to stand in the way of
fair trial of her, and they have made her do
her best.
The bullgine does save coal Engineers
get what is called a coal premium on all the
fuel they are able to save. They are al
lowed six pounds Of coal per mile for every