Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-10-21
What the Railroads are Dong.

With the object of getting the time
between Jersey City and Philadelphia
down to ninety minutes the Pennsyl-
vania Railway Company has had con-
structed a big locomotive, an account
of which will set our readers to think
ing. Few Of US are aware of the i'm
mense weights that go into the loco
motives of the present day, or, for
that matter, into the trains they pull.
A fast train of six Pullmans, without
passengers, weighs, engine and all,
about 100000 pounds. Such is the
weight the modern train dashes
against the supports of the modern
bridge. Some trains weigh 1,000,O 600
pounds, and their momentum when
going at speed of forty miles an hour
is something fearful. But the new
locomotive, with the train it is to pull,
will leave all trains with which we are
acquainted far in the rear. 1t is to be
the heaviest engine ever built. having
the largest driving wheels ever used
in this country and a higher boiler
pressure 1t weighs las, 900 pounds, or
72J tons. With its tender, ready for
service, it weighs $4,000 pounds, or
112 tons. Its driving four in
number on each side. have diameter
of seven feet. The boiler pressure is
200 pounds to the square inch. 1t has
two cylinders, the one 19t and the
other 81 inches in diameter, with a
piston stroke of % inches. The boiler,
feet in diameter and q feet long, is
G5 feet above the rail. The engine is
made on the compound principle and
will make a speed of 100miles an hour
AS this speed is double the ordinary
so called fast" train, the public will
be able toappreciate it. a good road
bed i. the necessary conditions OF high
speeds. With heavy steel rails, sound
ties and a well-metaled roadway a
speed Of 100 miles an hour would be
as safe as 25 miles all hour on inferior
track.
Saturday night Frank Naille, a
brakeman on the Norfolk and West
ern Railroad, was seriously injured
on a north-bound freight train at An
tietan station. The train was shift
ing on the siding. Naille stood on
the platform of box car which was
pushed into the switch at the rate of
about twelve miles an hour. The
car struck another box car with con
siderable violence and the shock
threw Mr. Naille across the brake
wheel He was rendered unconscious
by the blow for an hour and half.
1t is stated that on the Ohio extern
sion of the Norfolk and Western,
which was lately completed, there are
100 bridges, the principal of which is
across the Ohio river at Kenova. The
total length of the bridge 1877 feet.
There are eight tunnels on the extern
sion, the longest being $500 feet
The office of the Norfolk and Yves
tern Railroad at Antietam was broken
open Thursday night. The safe was
opened by knocking off the combina
ton. Fortunately the agent, Mr.. Phil
Grove, had taken AL the money with
him to Sharpsburg, and the only loss
was the damage to the safe.
Capt. j. b. Manyett, who was one
of the first employees Of the Shenan-
doah Division of the Norfolk and
Western Railroad Company, having
been in the service for nearly twelve
wears, has been promoted from freight
conductor to passenger conductor.
The engineers surveying the new
railroad along the Potomac river
reached the line dividing Berkeley
and jefferson counties last Friday,
and quit work at that point for the
present.
Charles S. Thompson, n b. " o..
brakeman whose home was in Mar
tinsburg, was run over by train and
killed at the Relay House last Satur-
day. He was 2s years old.
A new freight rate went into effect
on the main stem Of the b. & o. last
week whereby the rate on grain was
raised one cent per bushel.
There is considerable complaint
among business men at the delays in
hauling freights on the railroads.