El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-06
NEW G.. H. ENGINES.
The West End No Longer Has the Call
ON Monster Locomotives.

! The q II. Is receiving five new mann
moth, tenwheeler freight engines from
the Schenectady. N. Y, works. Three
are already here and the other two
are on the road. These monsters are
of a new series of numbers, the nine
hundred class, but they are of the same
pattern as the big eighteen hundreds
running between this city and Tucson,
in fact 1t is said they are from the samr
templates. The cylinders are 2Ox26
inches, the three pair of drivers 81 in
ches, boiler shell 62 inches, and there
are about 275 2-incn fues. The en-
gines sit very high in their frame
owing to the depth of their fire boxes,
so that a medium sized man can stand
up under the boilers.
The cabs are equipped with monitor
in electors numbers and 10, and the
furnace doJr is divided into two parts
horizontally, the upper half being
opened when the fireman is throwing
coal into the rear part of the fire box.
This device saves so much cold air from
rushing into the fire as coal Is
being fed. There is also
d fire brick arch of the latest pattern
which provides what might be Gale d
consumption chamber above it where
the cases that are usually unconsumed
are burned up, thus ecOnOmizing on
fuel and preventing so much disagree
able smoke from coming out of the
stack. And besides tn at, the use of the
brick arch throws the heat back against
the back sheet of the fire box, thus
equalizlng or distributing evenly the
heat over all of the i've fire box sheets,
something that simple fire box does
not do. 1t Is the unequal dlstri button
OF the heat that helps along amazingly
cracks or checks and loOsened rlveL
hUles due to the unequal strains. The
cabs are equipped with the latest i'm
proved lubrlcators. with attachments
SO That II one steam passage does not
work, another means of getting the
Oil to the desired spot may be ma lie Use
OF. Inc back neau of the boiler is
rather imposing sight, In fact. sug-
gests that If the height of boilers keeps
on increasing, step ladder may be
necessary ere long for the enginemen
to reach the top of the boiler from the
foot board, or floor of the cab.
The capacity of the tank on the ten
der is 4OOO gallons. The entire weight
of the great m tchine is 126 tons, that
is, everything in running order. Such
engines Will haul most anything that
an ordinary car draw bar will stand.
and more than a good many will stALd.
Engines 800 and yOl have been running
Wild for two days now to limb.r up,
with engineers Blanchard and Simiuo
with Engineer Hobein in charge. En-
gines 9O5 and 9O4 may be along any
day.
There is a steady tendency towards
larger locomotives, tendency limit I'd
only by the weight of the rail, for these
heavy machines will crush light or
medium rail, which has been abund-
anLly proven locally by the experience
of the yard men with the big G Joke en-
gines that have knocked so many switch
connections, galley west" anu spre 4d
the rails. The New York Central has
found it necessary to lay 100 los steel
for long distance out of the Grand
Central depot in New York, on account
of the heavy wear and tear on the rails
and track.
The performance sheets of the new
nine hundreds will be regarded with
interest.