The sun., 1901-10-09
AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES.
This Country Now MnnufacturihG
Engines which Are shippeh ~
All Parts OF the world.


the other industries Of the country ~ W
great business boom. Last year ihe'e
were turned out Of the American slePs
q. .153 engines, the largest nntliher 49,
built in the history of the country. y"
nroduction showed an increase OF aoo
locomotives, or 27.5 per cent, over .he
production Of 1899, when the buiiaiils
record was also broken. In that wv
o473 locomotives were turned OUT ~
1S9S tho American shops produced i,o'''
in 1897, 1,25l; in 1896. Ito. -
The export figures, taken in cohileettoh
with this American production, are mos.
significant Last year there were Se''.
abroad 5O5 machines. In 1S.o we sem
514 abroad: in 1S9S Sol; in 1871, 5s'',
and in 1896, 300
So far. American builders have had an
eyer-increasing demand from atfo'la'
This demand has within the last tWe
years been limited by the willingness ol
the American shops to meet IT, No se'i-
eral effort has been made WITHIN tnat
neriod to secure foreign orders because
the American manufacturers nave beeh
unable to keep up with the domestic ae-
mand. Foreign orders that have been
filled have been practically unsolicited.
They are based undoubtedly on the satls-
faction that our machines gave in actual
use in the past.
American makers can turn out loco
motive in less than half the time that Is
required in the hcst-elupped shops OF
Europe, and, pound for pound Of metal,
at very much lower cost. 1t is because
of these two facts that we have been able
to take business away in competition with
England, France, Germany, Belgium and
other European manufacturers.
American-made locomotives are run to-
day in England. Canada, France, Spain,
Japan, Russia, India, Sweden. Finland,
Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecua-
dor Peru, Guatemala, Egypt and South
ern Africa, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia
and elsewhere
Our engines show an economy for each
ton moved that is nnapproached by any
other type
1t IS this fact that gives us here freight
rates that are on an average 40 pcr cent
lower than those that prevail in Eur0pe.
II is the same III passenger rates. Both
freight and passenger movements are
effected in America ut a figure that no
t<"ivINhi ihilIbdd lslS Dttli Hult even ~
approximate, Notwithstanding the much
lower cost Of labor abroad II costs less
in America to move ton of freight
from Chicago to New York, Il distance
of 900 miles in round numbers, than il
costs to move the same quantity three OF
four hundred miles in England or on the
continent. No other single item has done
so much to give America her rising s
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as this commercial transportation.
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In point of speed there is comparatively
little difference between the American
locomotive and some of the European
built locomotives, though even in tlis
field the advantage has been with us
There have been recently completed Il,
the Schenectady works twenty-five loco
motives for the New York Central which.
both in point Of speed and power, are $,
far in advance Of anything known il
Europe that the foreigner can hardly b
said to be in the same class. This is
new type Of engine, and in measure.
Is a revolution even with rs. One :
these engines recently carried thirteei
heavy passenger coaches, weighing an
proximately 1,6o0,000 pounds, 1T Il Spev,
of siity-three miles an hour. This loco
motive developed 1852 horse power dur
ing a considerable part of the run. An
other one Of the engines carried passen
ger train Of fifteen ears, including fou
heavy sleepers, and weighing approx
mately 1,S0O,0O0 pounds, at the rate .
sixty miles an hour. On another rul
with train Of ten heavy passenger car.
these engines made III miles in 10
minutes, running from St. Thomas /
Windsor.
Such trains are unknown in Europt
and, therefore, the fast runs that the
make over there are hardly to be com
pared with ours. Their high-speed OK
press trains are generally made up o
four coaches which, together. would No
weigh as much as two of our coaches
Their runs are straight for the most part
and their road beds, being generally muc
older than ours and having had from III
start ceascless care. add materially ID tn
advantage under which they operate,
The figures given show the great ad
vantage of the American over the foreip
locomotive where speed and power ar
combined requisites. For power alone th
dlfference IS even more pronounced in on
favor. Actual experience with the new
type Schenectady locomotives has show,
that one of these machines cup null i,,