The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-04
AMONG RAILROAD men
Union Pacific Business Is in
Splendid Condition.
INCREASING THE FORCES
Ballasting the Tracks of the Entire Sys-
tenn = Grievance Committee Is
Still Trying to Get Hear
ing From Hill.

ing ITO" II.
Charles Clifford, general agent OF, the
Union Pacific, returned yesterday from
a trip to Omaha, where he put in about
| 10 days, alternating business with
! pleasure.
Business Of the Union Pacific has
never been in such splendid condition
as at present." said Mr.. Clifford. The
road, in every respect, is in splendid
shape. There has been such an i'm
provement all along the line that it
has been found necessary to increase
the forces at all divisional points. The
force at Omaha has been greatly in
creased. The work of ballasting the
track of the entire system is going on
| and the roadbed Is being put in most
excellent condition.
The new through train from Chicago
to San Francisco, which was arranged
for at a meeting Of the Union Pacific
| and Southern Pacific officials few
| days ago, will be put into service on
the 18th of the present month, and will
run through from Chicago to San Fran
cisco, and will make three trains be-
| tween Chicago, Omaha and the coast
and intermediate points. The new
train will run over the Northwestern,
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific.
4 The schedule provides that the 500
miles from Chicago to Council Bluffs
will be made in eight hours, and the
time from Council Bluffs to Ogden will
be 25 hours. The entire run from Chi
cago to San Francisco will be made
in 70 hours, or three days. The new
train service will be the fruition of a
| scheme the Union Pacific has long
tried to put into effect, but has been
unable to do so because of the refusal
heretofore of the Southern Pacific to
go into it, the latter claiming that to
| go into it would work discrimination
against it's Sunset route. The compe-
tition Of the Santa Fe. however finally
induced the Southern Pacific to join
the Union Pacific in putting on the
through train from Chicago to San
Francisco
The grievance committees of the
Great Northern firemen and conductors
have not abandoned their efforts to get
hearing from President Hill and OBJ
tanning an adjustment of their affairs
Both committees are still in st. Paul
The Minneapolis Times has the follow
ing on the subject:
| "A new phase of the trouble which
the Great Northern is having with it's
employees has developed. The ultima
tum which Superintendent Ward deliE-
cred to the two grievance committees
Of that road which met In st. Paul
! a little bit. They have taken another
step. Grand Master Sargent of the Or
der of Locomotive sFiremen has been
called in.
| Another grievance committee of the
/ Great Northern was in session in st.
| Paul yesterday, that Of locomotive fire.
men. They spent the day comforting at
the Merchants hotel. More than doz-
en- attended They comprise represent
tatives from all points on the system.
They are even more: secret in their de-
alterations than We're the conductors.
| but sufficient has developed to indicate
their purpose and intentions.
Their grievances are the same as
were those Of the conductors. Strictly
speaking, they are acting in unison
with that branch of employees. 1t is to
meet this committee that Grand Mas
ter Sargent is coming to st. Paul. The
entire trouble will be laid before him.
and he will carry it personally before
the Great Northern management. That
concessions will be made by the latter
before the affair is dropped is assured
by the men aggrieved.
1.-The knowing ones say the five cir
culars issued by the Great Northern
yesterday making transfers and pro-
motions were conceived in the hope of
appeasing some of the men who are
now making such a loud protest. But
it is not thought the plan will work.
There are other and more important
considerations. Mere transfers will not
suffice"
The largest and heaviest locomotive
in the United States is in operation on
the Illinois Central railroad 1t is a
12Wheeled consolidated engine, built by
the Brooks locomotive works. The to-
tai weight Of engine and tender is 1854
900 pounds and has tractive capacity
of 1000 gross TONS behind tender on a
40-foot grade.
Some of the principal dimensions and
features are as follows:
Kind of fuel. .......... Bituminous coal
weight on drivers ......... 1897 200 lbs.
Weight on trucks. .............39 $4,000 lbs.
Weight total ss2, 200 lbs.
Wheel base. total, of engine 26 # 6 in.
Wheel base, driving. Is fit. 8 in.
Wheel base total, engine and ten
der .......... ............55 1T. 2& in.
Length over all, engine. AZ it. OK in.
Length over all total, engine and
tender .................. 65 TT. 79a in.
Height, center of boiler above rails
Height of stack above rails. is #. 5 in.
Diameter of boiler at smallest ring
rb,ctness Of material IN hare; so in
| 1o~Lo III. anu III.
Working steam pressure. ...... 210 lbs.
Cylinders, diam ....................23 in.
Piston stroke .....................3 80 in
Drivers, number ....................8
Drivers, diam ..57 in.
Drivers, material OF centers. cast steel.
Truck wheels, diam. ..............30 in.
Journals, driving axle, main. .95ax12 in.
Journals, driving axle, other. ..9x12 in.
Journals, truck ............. .5h@xl2 ln
Wheel fit, main. ......... 10Axsh in.
Main crank pin, size. ..71sx7 in.
Main coupling pin, size. ....SAx5 in.
Main pin, diam. wheel fit........8H in.
Boiler diam. at throat .91A in.
RniIar thickness Of tube sheet q in.