Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-11
Building N[N ENGINES
llarshslltown's Railroad Shops Turn.
Ing Out Seven New Passen.
J ger Enginea
Fsur Of the Largs Locomotives Will
Have Been Built From Top to
Bottom Hers.
Remaining Three Constructed After
Purchasing Baldwin Boilers
Shops Busy.

Z II - very Doubtful whether MarShall-
town people appreciate what an indus
try the city has in the Iowa Central
machine shops, but glance into that
busy place at the present time would
change the mind OF any person II he
had conceived an idea that the shops
don't amount to much. The great
amount Of new machinery that has
been placed into the different depart
ments OF the shop during the past few
years has enabled Master Mechanic
Kelley and his foremen to turn out
work on a far more extensive scale than
In years past, and q few OF the samples
OF work now ready for inspection
] eciipses nearly anything that has been
b done for some time.
Last fall the company purchased
from the Baldwin locomotive Works,
Philadelphia. three immense engine
boilers, and since that time the machin-s
lists have been at work constructing for
them the different working parts of lo-
+ comotives. The engine to be numbered
IS Is now ready for service. and is to
come out today or tomorrow for a lirn-S
bering up, PRIOR to being placed in. the
passenger service. The engine is a
beauty with sixty-inch drivers. 40 or
$50 pounds working pressure and 1I1sxi
2l-inch cylinders. The other two, UNI
der course Of construction, will be COM
plete shortly and aside from the three
new, machines, which are practically
Marshalftown built, the company will.
soon have ready four others, built en-
.tirrly in the shops here. boilers In
Scluded. The work on the boilers is not
yet finished, but it 10 the intention of
the master3mechanic to have them fins
x iShed in complete running order by fall.
\ 20 that next winter the Central will be
better equipped for passenger engines
s than for many years, or, in fact, for
any time since the business of the road
has grown beyond the proportions that
only required the use of lighter engines.
The boilers Master Mechanic Kelley
Is building will be larger than the Bald
wins, and will be used for eight-wheel
s passenger engines, with sixty-eight-
inch wheels. In the boiler shops new
Il tanks are being constructed, OF 5.25S
gallons capacity, which will be used on
& one Of the 100-class engines. the tanks
OF which are not large enough for the
freight runs. The 0O-class tanks will
be placed on the four new locomotives
now being built.
For these four new boilers Foreman
Miller. OF the boiler shops, is turning
out, what is4 probably as nice lot Of
& work as could be done anywhere. in the
\ shape of engine frame forgings. The
magnitude of this work can hardly be
Z realized unless seen and when the en-
gines are completed the officials be-
+ lieve that railroad men will say they
would do credit to any Of the larger
shops of the country.
The seven new passenger engines that
the company will have ready for serv-
fee by winter will make quite a hole in
the seventeen-inch engines now in use,
which are being condemned just as fast
as others can be built to take their
places. This work will continue until
all OF the old engines are worked over.