New-York tribune., 1901-07-28
AMERICAN ENGINES ABROAD
. N CALLAWAY POINTS OUT THAT THEY
ARE BUILT ACCORDING TO FOR
EIGN SPECIFICATIONS

samuel R. Galloway, president of the American
locomotive Company and former president OF the
-se"-1ork central, has contributed an article to
The Saturday Evening Post" of Philadelphia. in
reply to the recent criticism that American hutIr
locomotives inferior TO English built Iocor,o
uVes Mr. Galloway. among other things saws:
we may expect by the end of this year to reach
d CSondltion where we Will go seriously into the
foreign roads. When do. it is reasonably safe
tp fPpGse - that We snail get considerable OF
factors that are denied the foreign butIder-one is
economy and the other is rapidity of construction
We can turn locomotive here in less than half
the time that is required the best equipped
very much lower cost II is because Of these a. two
@ aSSeS "a fnaI We nave been able 10 take business
many, Belgium and other European manufacturers
England Canada France Spain Jspsp Rassa IN
India, Sweden. Finland Mexico Brazil Costa Rics
Southern africa Newfoundand. Nova Scotia sns sns
ELSEWHERE With the exception of the recent com
has been found anywhere with the locomotives fur
such English criticism as there has been viii have
any influence in keeping American built machines
out Of the foreign markets. The Engiishmen have
tunites OF our output Forty locomotives only
use only two years And they were all built under
English speciheati9ns That is 10 say, though they
the broad sense American locomotives This is a
almost all OF The locomotives now in use in foreign
countries with the possible exception OF those In
American type locomotive in use in cOntradis-
unCtiop to the American built locomotive that has
been sent to most of the other countries
II is unfortunate that owing 10 the existing con-
dltiOns In Europe, the American type locomotive
has not found place there. The system OF rail
roading IN Great Britain. France and the other
countries the water is entirely different from
our system here. There trains light and
facilities for handling freight are comparatively
speaking. small
They have no such vast yards as W. have in this
coHrtry. ard no manager would dream Of making
freight trains Of the length and weight that
common with Therefore the main advantage
of the American locomotive, its immense power
and its capacity for hard and continuous work.
cannot be applied. In consequence. there can be
real competition between machines and
those made abroad. If there were. the foreign
engines show economy for each ton moved that
Is unapproached by any other type.
There have just been completed by the Schencc-
tady Works twenty-five locomotives for the New
York Central which. both in point of speed and
power far in advance Of anything known
In Europe that the foreigner hardly be said to
end. in a measure. II is a revolution even with
One OF these engines recently carried thirteen
heavy passenger coaches. weighing approximately
l 600 900 pounds at speed or S1Nty-three miles
hour. This locomotive developed lr452 horsepower
during a considerable part OF the run. Another
one of ths engines carried a passenger train OF
weighing approximately 1S0OtO pounds. at the rate
OF sixty miles hour On another run. with
train of ten heavy passenger cars. these engines
made Ill miles in 100 minutes, running from ST.
Thomas to Windsor
Such trains are. of course unknown in Europe
and therefore the fast runs that they make
high speed express trains generally made up
OF four coaches. which. together. would weigh
as much two OF our coaches. Their runs
straight for the most part, and their roadbedS be-
ing generally much older than ours. and having
had from the start ceaseess care. add materially
TO the advantage under which they operate