The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-20
new ENGINES RECEIVED
Seven Big Boys for Missoula
Mountain Traffic.
CLASS Y LOCOMOTIVES
They Are the Best on the Line - The
Work Of Improvement Still Con-
tinued - Putting Down
New Steel,

seven of these engines when they are
all here and they are clearly the best
that the company has ever owned for
the heavy mountain work for which
they are intended. They are built by
the Schenectady works and are of the
consolidation type. Their heavy weight
on the drivers. 10000 pounds, gives
them an advantage over any other en-
gnes that the Northern Pacific has
ever had. This weight is $4,000 pounds
in excess of the driving weight of the
Glass X engines, the Mastodons as
they are called The new engines have
been given a partial test on the hill
work, and as far as they have been
tried they are satisfactory in every
particular. Their exact capacity has
not yet been determined, but will be
decided in short time by second
official test from Jocko to Missoula.
In appearance the Glass Y engines are
handsome types of the heavy motive
power. They. work well and the en-
glnemen who have run them say that
they are the best engines that have
ever been used on this division. That
means that they are the best on the
line, for the heavy grades of this di-
vision require the heaviest motive
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stated. the Glass Y engines are of the
consolidation type. They are COM
pound engines, with the high pressure
cylinder on the left and the low pres
sure on the right side. The low pres
sure cylinder is 34x34 inches and looks
as large as the boilers of the locomo-
tlveS that were in use five years ago.
The engines are numbered from 81 to
~ The specifications, as furnished by
the motive power department. are as
follows: Weight on drivers, 10000
pounds; weight on truck, 10000
pounds; total weight of engine. 1856, 900
pounds; total weight of engine and
tender, 2eS. 900 pounds; length Of wheel
base, 81 feet 91a inches: water capa-
city, $500 gallons; boiler, 70 inches in
diameter; high pressure cylinder, 23x34
inches; low pressure cylinder, 34X34
inches; piston valves; $50 boiler tubes,
"a inches; drivers, 4S inches in diam
40 inches long, AZ inches wide, II
inches high in front and 731a inches in
back. One feature of the engine that
attracts attention is the water carry
ing capacity of the tender, $500 gal
Ions. This is greater than that of any
other engine on the road and means
fewer stops will have to be made. All
in all, the engines of the new class
are the best that the company has
ever had here.
Along with it's improvement in mo-
tive power the Northern Pacific is
continuing its grade and curve revis-
ion and considerable new steel is be-
ing laid. AS was stated in the Stand
ard some weeks ago. the sidings on
this division have been increased to
60-car capacity and the trains are run
ming to the full length of the sdings.
The condition of the roadbed and
track on this division is something
that the track department may we'll
be proud of. There is certainly no
better track in the West than that of
the Rocky Mountain division at pres
prove in the next year as it settles
and becomes seasoned. 1t is all good,
however, and when it is compared with
the track of five years ago It is gilt
edge. Had it not been for this marked
improvement in the track the company,
even with the finest motive power in
the world, would not have been. able
to handle the long trains that are now
hauled east and west over this divis-
ion. The Improvement has been made
all along the division and this part
of the road is now practically a new
line. But, though the Improvement
has been great, it is by no means end
ed. The work is being rushed along
as fast as possible and there has been
no lessening of the construction force
that is doing this work. Roadmasters
Wayne. Flint, Hartman and O'Neill are
all hurrying the Improvement work
along and it will not be called done
till the whole division is in first class
shape.
Roadmaster Mayne has nearly COM
pleted the laying of the new steel on
the Missoula mountain and is now bal
lasting that portion of the line. This
steel has been slow in coming but it
is all here now and will all be in posi-
ton before winter comes. The i'm
provement of the mountain line has
been great this year and it now runs
as smoothly as if it were level track
Roadmaster Hartman on the west end
has considerable new steel laid and
has more to lay. His work has been
more extensive this year than ever
before and many portions of his track
have been entirely made over. On the
Occur d'Alene branch Roadmaster
Flint is continuing his good work, and
his part of the line. He has accom-
plished wonders this year. This track,
which was so rough a year ago, now
rates well up in the scale and when |
his seasons work is done he will have |
of which he can we'll feel |
proud.
Work has been commenced on the |
foundations for the new steel bridge |
that is to be built over Fish creek on
the Occur dA'lene branch. This has
always been place where a steel |
structure was needed, and now that |
the business on the branch has in
creased SO much it is more essential
IMAM ever that there be strong bridge
at this high crossing The new bridge
is to be a fine one and will rank with
the Blackfoot and Perma bridges. The
bridge crew will be at work as soon
as the foundations are completed. An
other steel bridge is to be built at the
crossing of Grant creek This is a
low and comparatively insignificant
crossing, but it has caused so much
trouble in the past that it has been
decided to put in a bridge that will
stand. This is the bridge that was
wrecked by strikers at the time of the
"a unpleasantness
Superintendent Russell is making
his semi-annual inspection of bridges
and buildings and will be out on the
road for two weeks on this business
ihere have been many important re-
pairs and changes made this wear in
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