Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-16

end. There is another engine witt
five pairs of drive wheels. Anothe
ponderous machine, unlike any other
is one that the wheels of the tende,
are driven by horizontal shafts, hung
down on the side of the engine oppo-
site the center of the wheels, eac1
wheel being geared to the shaft by 6
bevel gear. The main shafts are
cranked to upright steam cylinders
This must be very strong freight
machine. Great moguls are seen with
boilers six or seven feet in diameter
which stand high over the tier Of drive
wheels alongside.
Some monster passenger engines are
seen: among the largest Of these is an
English locomotive which formerly
ran on the Great Western Railway,
the wheels of which are eight feet
! across and the gauge Of the road was
seven feet. The monster machine was
shown at the Crystal Palace exhibition
in London in 1851 and it ran Oh the
road twenty five years. The English
have several of later construction with
immense drivers, and very rapid
speed. The "Empress," perhaps their
best, is challenged by the 1899" to a
trial of speed. AS the 999 has made
distance at the rate of 113 miles an
hour the race will be swift one, and
such one as has never been seen
before. Speaking Of the 999 (these
figures represent the number Of
the machine). We happened to
see the machine the morning
ing it came on to the grounds, and
had conversation with the engineer
who drove it in. He was not the man
who made the astonishing time with
the engine in New York State few
days previous, but he handled the
levers long enough to be almost crazed
in his enthusiasm over the ability of
the machine. A detail which we read
up before we saw the machine helped
us to an understanding and apprecia
ton of this wonder among engines.
Sufficient, perhaps, for this purpose
will be bief description. The ma
chine embodies the best thought of
engineers of the shops and the sug-
gestions of old road engineers who had
long experience as engine drivers. 1t
is an ideal as well as a practical ma
chine; the different parts of the ma
chine were furnished, and donated, as
we understand, by different manufac
turers, the boiler from noted boiler
Il, IL
one place some from another, all tax
en- as the best which could be produced
and built into the model engine. It is
very large, with a long boiler, large
cylinders and 7 ft. in. drive wheels,
two pairs like an ordinary passenger
engine. The finish is fine and beauti
full, but there is little of filagree non
sense about it. The capacity of q
machine can be partially understood
by these who have occasionally sped
over the road at the rate OF mile in
sixty seconds, when they remember
that this machine drew a long train
along past the mile posts, one every 50
to 35 seconds. A mile a minute is the
full extent of our courage; deliver Us
from figures that run down into the
thirties.
We might visit an English train all
made up for ride wherever the rails
lead out il the few moments left for
this article. The engine is a monster
and is as good as the world produces,
except that important section known
as the United States, which, OF course,
beats everything. The great palace
car little way back is as beautiful in
construction and in finish as the best
can make, and as costly,
comparatively, as money can make
it. The finish is solid mahogany; the
seats are as soft as best upholstered
furniture, rich in silk pushes and
adorned with fringes. It is a compart-
ment car, ,all divided into finished sec
tions, large enough in each section for
six to eight persons. 1t was made for
that country of class, rank and dis
tinctions. The conductor climbs along
on narrow walk alongside the car
and punches his ticket, if indeed there |
IS any punching done on that side of |
the water. The car will deeply inter
est one on account Of its elegance and
beauty, and it's peculiar make We |
can go along further down the train,
but the difference between this and |
the American, first, second and smok-
ing cars is not particularly noticeable.
The Canadian Pacific train, complete
and fine in itself, as showing the ex-
cellency and character of its train SER