Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-03
SOME BIG ENGINES.
They Are in Service on the
Union Pacific.
GEN. DODGE'S OBSERVATIONS.
What He Told a Reporter Of tie New Orleans
Picayune-- Mississippi Valley Changes.
The Burlington Extension Cylinder
Cocss-Oher Railroad News.
rNloN pAolrIc ENeINEs.


10 isn't so very long ago that the loco
motive with the largest wheel was sup
posed 10 De the simplest engine made
saws tho Omaha Bee This WIS par
ticninrly true Of The English locomotive
and for q time their adoption in America
WINS looked upon as solving many dilh-
cultios 80 far az grade and capacity were
concerned But these engines are last
dispppcnringi in fact many Of the noun.
tain roads are boring out cylinders and
turning down wheels TO give their loco
motives more strength.
Some six years ago the Denver ana
Rio Grande adopted this policy, their
tbirty-hve Baldwin engines being bored
from fifteen TO sixteen Inches. Tie
wheels In this. case were not reduced,
however, as they we're only thiriy-sN
inches. The result was highly sausiac-
tory. aud locomotives that had been
pulling five loads on 2lTfoot grade
handled with the siXtoeninch cylinder
six loads very nicely IN short the bored
out engines capacity was Increased one
sixth
Mcconnell came tO the supprinteudcncy
of motive power and machinery seeing
the work done by the Denver and Rio
Grnndo engines. has nlHo adopted The
policy OF turning down Che wheels aud
boring ont the cylinders The wheels
Gre bciug turned down from hfty.fvc 10
furty-four inches aud thc cylinders which
were ll are bored ont to 10 i-2 a test
WIS mndc lust wccl, with one pi these
rpuodplpd engines between Trinidad aud
Denver with most satisfactory results.
Seventeen loads, which were considered
% fair train for the engine MS originally
turned ont were incwnHcd tO twenty-five
loads and bundled with cna' GO AN aver
age speed OF twenty-five miles per hour
Two new locomotives viii br turned
ont Of The Union Pacific shops 1u Sat
urluy 1901 and so Outside ~ u-
nrgod cylinders md fire box. 11Ol is prnc-
tiunllv the same ns 100. which rs now
engaged n pulling me fast train over the
hoghucl from Laramie 10 sherman.
distance of little over twenty Sis iailrs.
which &c nccompliahrs in un hour aud
twenty minutes ON u ninety foot rnlr
90 tho mile Tho Size of the iTOls cyliu-
drrs is 2OA2l aud the tirc box lllX
80 - uchos These dimcuHorF, IL rs
Thought win ircrcnsr the capacity Of
the locomotive one load and muhn 10 iuVt
That much more available thpu the 100
Which, gll reports tu thp contrary has
been doing exceptionally satisfactory
w9rl, on one of thr hardest pic'p9 Of
road Zoo America. Niucu % lpft tho shops
ZOO has been making ita two uipg d
day and shows little usDpo except whore
10 hus como in contact with thp hliznr lg
that howl over The mountains about half
the year
SO. Sl2 belongs 10 the samo class os
the 500 engines, eleven of which having
been turned ont tIs yrur This engine
viii he first cried on the run between
Omaha und Denver mud lutcr win bc put
in service ON one of the western divis-
ioius. Both engines are hcnuurs mud
nmoug tho best ever turned out from ihc
Omuhu NhOug.
Engine 1901 Is a monster aud stand
| ing los its side man fools his dWnrfcd
condition us hp looks uu 90 The almost
Hrntont being which will soou be- climb.
| ing the llll between Cheyenne and Lnn.
| mic The engine wighs seventy
no. drive wGcols. Eycyhing
about Il is finished except am
! additional cont of paiut. which IL will no.
I coiye today. Sunday 70 will have q day
! of meditation in the paint shop drying
ont, aud on Monday IL viii start ON Il,
| trip overland to Cheyenne. whore 10 will
go into service TO pun the fast passenger
train over the hoEhnch, taking the place
of two engines which have boon nuprs
sary 10 perform the work
The iutrcductinu of Che 100 and ne
| lIOl un thia portion Of the Western diW
/ slou menus great dcnl 90 the uperHtilt
| department Tor the 100 alone hnl
| shown saving ot NhOo per month " hicl
| Mr.. Mcdonnell hopes will be- oxcne led
! by the ltOl This saving Is uccompl,ahc,
by loss coal being colHumcd and The de
crease Ia the pay of engineer and lifc
| mnn Az soon us possible locomouy,
| l1O2 viii hc turned ont 10 take VS. turn
on hauling passenger trains over the 10
| vide, 30 that IN ease one pugiue must ~,
| iu for repairs the other will be- able {,
do the work. thus forever shnttMg cf
the double-hcader, which until now Lal
held the fort
A new tme card shortly to 20 into Of
feet on the Cheyenne division vii
increase the running time hy,
or ten minutes between Clev
enne and sherman, aud viii
this change nude, 100 and 1901 will nj
ways ho ON tlmo, no matter what IN
condition Of the weather which lt time
IN something awful upon the high plti
tude about Tie Siding