The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-28

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the fullness Of time had come, until the
field was ripe for the sickle, it has had
constructed for It a trans-contluentai
train, or, rather ten trains, to speak
more accurately, that take advantage of
all modern improvements, both in ideas
and construction, of railway car build
ers In addition to the regular trains
now running, and which viii be con-
tinued on practically the present time
card, a new train, which VIII be known
as the North Coast Limited" will be
put into service on the date mentioned.
These trains will be hauled by ten
wheeled Schenectady engines, weigh
ing, exclusively OF tender, 100000
pounds, or eighty tons. Each engine
has six driving wheels, the diameters
of which are either slxty-nine or sew
enty-three inches, or as high as q tall
man, and Will carry the train nearly
twenty feet at each revolution of the
WHEELS The steam pressure carried is
two hundred pounds to the square inch,
which will enable these monsters to
pull the heavy train at a high speed.
even eighty miles an hour, II neces-
sary. The fire box, or furnace which
supplies the heat that generates this
great steam pressure is nine feet long,
six feet high and five feet wide. The
tender will contain nine tons Of coal
and 1850 gallons of water when start
ing on its long journey. The boiler, at
It's smallest diameter. is sIxty-two
inches and the engine stands fourteen
and half feet high. These locomotives
are of the compound pattern, whereby
the steam after having been used In
one cylinder, and the expansive or ut
most power of the steam is thus OBJ
tanned. These engines will also supply
steam for heating the train and operat-
Ing the dynamos to supply electricity
for lighting the cars.
Modern Trains.
Each North Coast Limited train will
have eight cars, l. e., express, baggage,
second-class coach and combination
smoker, first-cIass COACH tourist sleep
ing car, dining car, Pullman standard
sleeping car, and an observation car,
each of which will be lighted by cleo
tricity. The whole train win also be
equipped with wide vestIbules, steel
platforms, NJ. c. b. standard couplers,
Westinghouse air brakes, westlns-
house air train signals the Gold sys-
TEN heat. and paper wheels with steel
tires. The new baggage and express
cars will be seventy feet in length, and
the baggage car will contain at the
front end the electric plant. This con-
slsts OF an eight and u half by eight
inch cylIndered steam engine, TWEEN
ty-hve Rilowatt- Westinghouse dynamo
with complete switchboard apparatus.
This plant will generate an electric cur
rent of 800 amperes at pressure OF
l25 volts. The smoking cars, or second
class coaches. are divided by partl-
ton one-helf being for the use of sec
ond-class passengers and the remain
der used for smoking car.
The frst-class day coach, sixty feet
in length, follows the smoking car.
These coaches are OF recent manufac-
ture and along the most modern lines,
well ventilated. roomy, finished in ma
hogany, with separate and comfortable
toilet rooms for men and women. A
sixteen section tourist sleeping car, An
lshed In mahogany, upholstered In dark
green leather, with isles carpeted, fol-
lows Immediately after the flrst-clnss
coaeh, and will prove a source of sur
prise and delight to those who cannot
afford the luxuries OF first-class Pull
man sleeping car. Immediately back
of the tourist sleeping cur Will be a
standard Northern Pacific dining car
with appointments complete In every
detail, Next in order comes the Pull
man nrst-class sleeping car, which
viii be as finely finished and ms hand
sonely decorated as any sleeping cars
In the country. Two electric berth
lights in each section viii enable the
passenger who desires to while away
an hour with his book, to do so ut his
ease and comfort.
At the rear end Of each train viii be
found the browning feature, I. e.. an OBJ
seryatlon car, seventy feet In length.
These cars viii be entirely new and
finished in mahogany, with Persian
brass trimmings throughout; the ex-
terror finish will be OF standard Pull
man color. 1t ls claimed for these cars
that they Will combine all OF the com
forts OF the library car. 80 called; all
the good points of the old-stylc obser-
walton car, and new features never In
PRODUCED In car building heretofore.
At the forward entrance OF this car,
along the aide OF which runs n corrl-
dor forty-two feet in length, viii be
found two smoking and card rooms,
seven by eight feet, with folding tn-
| bles, and six upholstered wicker chairs.
These smoking rooms VIII be entirely
shut OF from the remainder OF the car,
aud with excellent ventilation, VIII