The sun., 1897-08-29
1oNeER nuns FoR ENGINES.
Success sr the Pcunayivania Raiiroaa's Tests
for Great Distances.

tot eFeah DeNsH"OcS.
For the past few years the Ponnsylvania
Railroad officials have been experimenting
with their bie engines. with a view to finding
out whether or not IL as practicable to increase
the lcngth of the runs made by them. 1t has
been customary with all of tho large railroads
for years to change engines on through trains
every $50 miles or So and the idea Of the Penn
sylvania people is to ascertain whether this
constant changing ia necessary or not. The
experiments have all been conducted in the
West principally at Fort Wayne Ind. and
have been under the supervision Of G. ID. Law,
superintendent OF the Fort Wayne division OF
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad. So far the re-
suits obtained have been favorable to the long
runs, but no changes will be made in the opera.
tion of the road for somo time Experiments
are to be conducted here in the East first 1t is
said. A train will be run from New York to
Pttsburk without change of engine, and on
this trial much will depend
The Pennsylvania Railroad people began
their experiments with tho hone of upsetting
certain theories concerning lone.distance run
ming by locomotives and others about the
manning OF the large and costly engines Rail
road men have always held that an engine is
like beast OF burden, in that II gets tired
after a certain amount of work md must be
rested For this reason a through train is
a belief among railroad men that an engine
should be '.petted," BY that term thew mean
that only one engineer should run IT, II he Ia
unable through sickness mr. o,ber roasons IN on
m dutv ths engine shor,d bs ,o,, 90 ,ha .o,eS 81
on uuty, tne engine should be left IN the round
house and another nut on in it's place In
other words, IL has been customarv IN regard
o.n0i "otue' WINS ~ mas oeen customary 10 resaru
the engineer as part OF the mechanism, and an
engine without its regular driver cripple
III. ,so, -, ,his a., -. -. " -.
ino iuea Vi .lis ID liat engineers geI 10 kno"
their engines thoroughly and are thus able TO
attain the highest degree of efficiency with less
oonu,,n,ion 90 ,,,s, 49,. ~, 49,, - -. -
p'ioh y, iue' anu OIL ana less wear anu
tear than could be obtained bv one who Is
stranger to tho machine Competition among
eheiheers ~ was tne result OF this system, and the
had their own engines
The penn.v,v.nI. ,,oor,o ,ro-o 81. g.. ..
change this order OF running their costly loco
motives They began by putting a new loco.
motive on certain run ana assigning diner.
tice was gradually extended until 1t now pre-
Pennsylvania in the West The results, the
,rht,h p,oh,h, oh. na.e oeen n'enly sati'iae.or,'
49, pi'oao' neahs 'ha' they nave simply
found out ut, ,ha, they can get as good service one
The The work of consolidating engine runs was
the Western divisions hu, i,s snccoss rras NJ,
ror,a ,,od 80 ,,a., i.. Du. 40 e"e'e'' vas ~.
lesafaea as very important as the consolidated
done by the flrst-c!ass engines The Art really
important experiments were made on the East
Chicago road. The run Of 100 miles was in.
creased on both passenger and freight trains
and has now been in operation for Some time.
More recently some of the pHssent er train runs
Of the We,torn division were conso !iaaicd, max.
ing continuous run for engines bet tween Chi.
cago and Crestline, a distance of 27s miles At
the present time there are two trains making
continuous runs between Fort WAYNE and
Pittsburg distance of 32l miles
The Pennsylvania officials are now contem.
plating an experiment which will eclipse in
Importance any of those already tried. Il will
pc to send one engine on a continu ous run
from Chicago to Pittsburg a distance OF ,;s
miles. 1t will be tried lust as soon as certain
track improvements now under way are com.
pieted. The officials Of the road are making
great preparations for this trial ON III re-,
suit depends the future practice of the company
The results Of some OF the experiments al.
has been so grea: that it is now the regular prac-
tice OF the road. Here are some OF the runs
which arc now made on this branch: Train
No. &, which is the fast mail is hauled by an
engine which leaves Fort Wayne al 7 O'Clock
in the morning. II rms dircct m pit shrry