The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-26
A FEW RAILROAD NOTES
THE work OF CHANGE And CON-
STRUCTlON IN THE YARDS.

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Something About the New Freight Engines
Can be Run with Less Coal and Fuel
Than the old Style Engines-The New
Round House in Process of Construction
baking sand-Railroad Yards Much
Cramped for Room.
The yards Of the Consolidated road
are pretty lively places at any time Of
the day, but about O'Clock in the af-
ternoon the hurry and hustle Of traffic
is especially noticeable. At this time
every track in the yard in front of the
depot Is occupied with trains of some
kind or other, The yards have been for
a long time very much crowded and it
is very noticeable every day during the
hours of the heaviest traffic how oramp-
ed the room Is becoming. 1t would seem
that the railroad company would be
fairly compelled before very long to car
ry out the long talked of plans for the
enlargement Of the yards.
The new freight locomotives-twen-
ty-five in number-which have been
built for the road during the last few
months are objects of admiration and
wonder to all who see them. The en-
gines are all alike and are numbered
from 276 to 300 inclusive. They weigh
$4,000 pounds, or seventy-eight tons,
apiece The boiler is u inches in diam
eter and there are four pairs of 51-inch
driving wheels The cylinders are II
by rs inches, and there are 80 two-inch
flues in each engine. The water capac-
ity of each tender is 1900 gallons. The
tender can carry from five to seven
tons Of coal. The new engines are built
especially for hauling heavy freight
trains. The drive wheels are made con-
siderably smaller than the passenger
train engines on this account. The old
freight engines can haul thirty-dve
loaded freight cars, but these new loco
motives can haul fifty loaded freight
cars over the road between New YORK
and Boston. Contrary to what might
be expected, they are rum with less coal
and less water than the old style en-
CINE. This is due in part to the greater
power Of the small drive wheel. The
engines are built by the Rhode Island
Locomotive Works at Providence, R. L.
One of the stalls in the old round
house has been torn out and construc-
ton is going forward which will enlarge
the coal-bin. The work is in charge of
Common Brothers. The old roundhouse
and the shops as they now stand will
eventually be abolished and new ones
built further down towards where the
new roundhouses now are.
One of the most interesting operations
in the shops is the smoothing out of he
inside Of the tires of the driving wheels
for engines. The huge tires are placed
on two large and slowly revolving
wheels, and steel planes little by little
smooth out the inside of the tire until
it will fit on the wheel
1t may not generally known that all
the sand which is used under the driy-
ing wheels of engines has to be thor
oughly dried before it will slide through
the tube from the sand box to the rail.
The sand is put in immense drying pans
and hot fire kept under it for several
hours.
A long brick pit, such as are found in
roundhouses, and about seventy-five
feet long, has been completed. The
top part is of sandstone and it Is iron
lined.
The new roundhouse which is being
built in the lot next beyond where The
roundhouse recently completed stands
will take up the full extent of the rail
road company's property in that direc-
ton A strong retaining wall Of rec
sandstone is in the process of construc.
ton. It's object is to keep back the
sand next to Hallock avenue and thus
prevent caving in. The work is il
charge Of Robert Redfield & Sons.
The new roundIhouse is 288 feet in di
ameter, with LA feet radius. 1t is elsy-
en- feet larger in diameter than the
roundhouse that is already completed
and will be used for the new engines
which are too long for the stalls in The
roundhouse where they are now kept
The new roundhouse will contain thir
ty-four stalls, and with the thirty-foul
in the house already completed it will
be possible to keep sixty-eight engine!
here at New Haven. The old round
house will be eventually torn down
Conner Brothers have charge Of tn,
stone work on the new roundhouse
George M. Grant the mason work ant
the Berlin Bridge company will put OF
the roof.