Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-01-12

the end of the car. The exact weight of
this locomotive is not known; but probably
/ it did not weigh over %, 900 pounds, ana
| its power was feeble compared with modern
engines. II is said that fer time, it was
run in opposition to six OK team employed
| by Mr. Coe of Bangor, an extensive Inn
Der dealer. who Yee not willing to pay the
rates charged On ms railroad. Finally, as
we learn, the MANAGEMENT of the railroad
came to what Mr.. Coe considered fair rates,
and he afterward turned his traffic over the
railroad.
| The modern locomotive shown is ore OF
several of It's kind now being used In this
| State. It's cylinder IS 10 by "a and its
driving wheels are fifty inches in diameter
under the tire This locomotive weighs
| los, 900 pounds and its tender weighs
| 20 900 pounds. This locomotive is one OF
| the most modern in design and is equal IN
motive power to any in general use.
| During the past thirty years, the I'M
provements in style, power and capacity
| of locomotives have been as great and as
rapid SIS in other departments of railroad
| ing. Every increase in loads or speed or
trains. calls for increase Of power. Few
.aliza the amount of power required to
draw one of tie Pullman vestibule trains
heavily loaded, over the grades and curves,
which are on many of the railroads in this
State.
Though improvements have been made
from time to time to lessen the work of en-
aineers and firemen in some directions, still,
by reason of such improvements, more
| work has been added in others. The COM
fort and safety of passengers now demand
automatic couplers and buffers, and these
30 adjusted that there shall be no shock or
severe impact between the cars. For this
reason more power Is required TO start
trsins Faster time than was formerly
made is now demanded, and the train, to
give satisfaction, must be on time at'eyery
station. This means that the engineer
must take every advantage possible, and
utilize all the Improvements, and all power
within his control must be carefully watched
and used to its utmost extent, or time will
| be lost. These duties require constant
care, skill and faithfulness on the part of
the men who are iatrusted with such grave
responsibilities.
The time tables here reproduced are fac
smile advertisements taken from the Port
land newspapers The frat one being the
time tables, as published, of several rail-
roads running out of Portland in 1850, and
| Tue SSCCnu, tldl u tALIt laDiSS Pub1A0hSG
1898.
AT the date first named, no railroad COM
pany in Maine issued tickets beyond its
own line or lines. and cars were run only
over the road operated by such railroad
company. Mileage books were not issued
till a much later date.
The rate Of speed at that time was only
about twenty-one miles per hour, and at
that time there was little, or none of what
has since been designated as summer
travel. Maine had not then become cele-
brated as vacation ground for sojourners
during the sammer months as now. These
time tables show how fully the demand for
more frequent and faster trains is being
| met.
It hardly seems possible that during the
next thirty years, such changes ard I'M
provements can be wrought as in the past,
yet many of the brightest and best minds
are at work on the railroad problem, aud
no one can safely predict the progress that
| may be made in the future.
| New Railroads and Extensions.
| Notwithstanding the financial depression,