The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-03
MORE MOTIVE POWER.
The Southern Pacific Has Ordered
Twenty-one Mammoth Engines.

Twenty-one Mammoth Engines.
The motive power of the Southern
Pacific is to be greatly augmented by
the addition of twenty-one new engines.
all of mammoth design for use on the
mountain divisions. On Wednesday
morning the order for the locomotives
was sent to New York.
The Southern Pacific company designs
its own engines, after which the plans
and specifications for the same are
submitted to the various locomotive
works of the country and bids are re-
ceived from the several competitors.
The estimated cost of these engines
is about S250,000, and they will en-
brace in their construction all the re-
Gently invented features in locomotive
building which have been made. The
principal object kept in view in design
ing these monsters has been to secure
the greatest amount of power and
speed combined.
The officials of the Southern Pacific
have determined to reduce the time in
its direct eastern line as much as pos
sible. These engines were designed for
that purpose. Just what reduction can
be made in the schedule time cannot
be determined until the new engines
have been placed into service. 1t is
supposed, however, that this will be
very material
The engines designed are, as has
been stated, of exceptionally large size,
as the following description will indi-
cate:
The cylinders are 10 inches in diane
ter, 24-inch stroke; the drivers 63 inches
in diameter, with 312-inch tire. The
weight of each engine loaded will be
1S0,750 pounds; weight on truck, 25,S5O,
on drivers. 1O49 900. The engines are
what are known as the 10-wheel type
and will have a maximum speed ca
pacity of sixty miles per hour
One of the officials of the Southern
Pacific road had the following to say
about the new purchases which would
be made:
THE engines which we will put into
use must necessarily be of ponderous
pattern and capable of pulling a very
heavy train on steep grades. In this
class Of engines the effort viii be to
combine both strength and speed. The
lighter engines which we now have in
use have been found unequal to the
task and will be sent to the valley reg
ions for future service.
1.-THE question whether we win be
able to travel on railroads at regular
speed of 100 miles an hour, has been
frequently asked The experiments
made by the New York Central within
the past year go far toward answering
this in the affirmative. However, most
railroad magnates are disinclined to
look favorably upon such proposed in
crease of speed, because of the addi-
tiOnal danger, but with the improve
ments being constantly made in con-
struction Of roadbeds, rolling stock,
etc, this danger is, of course, reduced
to a minimum
That the speed of passenger trains
in this country is destined to rapidly
increase in the near future seems GER
tain. There is nothing in railroading
that makes such large and quick re-
turns to the management as catering
to the wants and desires of the travel
ling public. Nothing so fully exempli-
fies this as the immense change that
has taken place in the past five years
in equipment of through express trains
from the seaboard to the west and
southwark.
THE luxury and comfort that can be
obtained today in one of the many
limited trains passing over any of the
TO what were furnished five or six
years ago, and it would seem that
there was not much room for fur
Their Improvement in that direction
What the public is seeking and what
will certainly be furnished is fast time
and that this is appreciated by rail-
road managers is well evidenced by
the large sums that are now being
spent to perfect the roadways on the
more important lines"