The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-12
AMONG RAILROAD MEN.
Business in Washington and Oregon LIS
Excellent.

r. A. Wadleigh, general passenger
and ticket agent of the Rio Grande
Western, arrived in the city yesterday
afternoon over the Northern PacNic
from the West. Mr.. Wadleigh has been
making a business trip through oregon
and Washington and found Ihings
through that country looking well. lie
came to Butte on his return to take a
look over the interests of the road here.
The affairs of the Western, said MI.
wadleigh, were never in a more satls-
factory and prosperous condition. On
the list of June the dining car service
between Ogden and Denver Will be as-
tablished. 1t had originally been IN
tended to put the service on May ISL.
but the Pullman company was delayed
in building the cars. D. j. Fraser, form
erly with the Michigan Central. has
been appointed superintendent OF the
dining car service on both the Rio
Grande Western and Denver u no
Grande. Six of the handsomest dlnlnS
cars that the Pullman company knows
how to build will be put in the service
and after the LIST of June meals will be
served on all the western trains. The
travelling public has long found the alb
sence of dining cars on the Western the
only thing lacking in a perfect service
and that will now be remedied.
The Oregon Short Line and the West
IL,
the low excursion rates east which are
made by all roads. The tickets will be
on sale June 5 and 6.
Mr.. Waleigh will leave for the South
| this afternoon.
Railroads, East and West, are not
| competitive in their equipments in any
| sense; but the monster locomotive of
| the Boston & Albany railroad, which
recently took the palm from old "9s9'
Of the Empire State express, must re-
linuuish its place to a western rival.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad has recently put into service
the two largest passenger engines ever
| constructed. They will be used on the
Denver express and the fast mail
trains. These new giants, numbered
1851 and 1852, weigh just one ton more
than the Massachusetts wonder. One
| hundred and tWenty-seven tons, each,
| 1000 pounds more than their eastern
| rival.
Eastern railroads were In nine-days'
| wonderment over the Boston & Al
bany's experiment. When locomotive
No. 221 Numbered out of Boston few
| weeks ago at a 10 mile sweep for
Springfield, the worlds record in loco
| motives was exceeded. without any
spirit of competition and wholly within
| the scope of it's needs, the Burlington
system has had to Guido the New Eng
land line.
| Compared with the Boston & AL
bany's No. 221 the Burlington's No,
1851 shows more marked characteristics
than are to be guessed from the tota
weight difference of one ton. The AL
| bany's engine weighs 126 tons, and the
| Burlngton's 127 tons; the drivers of the
| one are six feet two inches, and or the
other feet and u of an inch; No. 221
hauls train Weighing 80 tons and No
1851 pulls one weighing 371 tons; the
| compound cylinders of the one are :.
by "a inches and of the other 90 by q
inches; No. 221 carries eight tons OF
coal and $500 gallons of water; No
| 1851 takes II tons of coal and 5000 gal
| Ions of water; both engines have tht
same steam pressure of 220 pounds tt
| the square inch.
This new mastodon of the Burling
tons is the Atlantic type, VAUGHAN
compound engine, with two cylinders
high and low pressure-on each side
Its boiler is fitted with 294 tubes, two
inches in diameter and 10 feet long. IT
giant drivers, two on a side, are abou
midway between the back of the cal
and the front of the pilot. Just behind
them is a trail-truck, with two wheels
five feet in diameter. Back of fhes'
are the regulation trucks supporting
the tender Each of the four drive
wheels weighs 5000 pounds and makes
about 240 revolutions to the mile.
On its first trip with the Denver ilye
No. 1881 pulled a solid Hestibule train
of two NAH cars, one composite librar,
and smoking car, two sleeping cars,
dining car and two reclining chair car
"a load 81 tons in excess of that draw
by the eastern engine. On this occasion
No. 1881 behaved admirably. Whel
her journals are little smoother ant
when she has found herself under tn
| hand Of her new master, the Burling