Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-11-02

have considerable bearing upon thu
policy of the Santa Fe management
SO far as it applies t the general con
duct Of the road in its relation to 9th
er trans-continental lines.
Yellow Fever Affects Traffic.
All railroads entering in Ell Pasc
are beginning to feel the effects Of
quarantine. Not only has all travel
to the infected city ceased, but travel
to and from all points in the state
has suddenly decreased TO the low wa
ter mark, says the Times. A passen'
ger official stated yesterday that moth
ing was calculated to give the rail
roads a black eye on as short notice
as a quarantine. A calamity howl Of
any sort, be it imaginary or real, is
always reflected in the earnings Of a
railroad, but when a quarantine Is
ordered the travelling public is salts
fed to stay at home. for a quarantine
means official confirmation to all ru-
mors and reports. Naturally the bust
ness interests also suffer along with
the railroads, and there is some con-
ISOLATION in mutual misfortune. Pas
senger business to all points In the
state will be demoralized until the
present scare has been proved to be
mostly a matter Of exaggeration.
It might be well to add, however,
that though business to northern and
eastern points has suddenly jumped
to enormous proportions since the
state health officer announced to the
world that yellow fever has been dis
covered at San Antonio, people from
the north who have come to Texas
with the intention of spending the
winter unmenaced by winters chilling
breezes, in many instances have
changed their minds and returned to
their northern homes.
New Engines.
This division should shortly receive
q few Of the big engines now being
finished In the Baldwin locomotive
works.
The consignment Of twenty engines,
ordered for the Santa Fe at the Bald
win locomotive works, is nearly finish
ed and several Of the big machines
have been sent to the west. They
will be used on the heavy grades on
the ranges crossed by the Santa Fe
main line. The engines are the larg-
est that have ever been turned out
Of any railroad shops in the world.
One Of the great machines, a few
days ago, wal taken to the New Mex
leo division to be used on the steep
inclines in Ration pass. When the en-
CINE was run into the round house at
La Junta it was found that there was
not room enough in the stall for the
complete engine, SO the tender was
uncoupled and the monster was then
almost too large for the narrow quar-
tiers. The engine with tender is sew
enty-seven feet long and the tank Of
its tender has q capacity for $500
gallons of water. Its weight is Ego
tons. The engine has five drivers on
each side and the wheels are SO large
that the surface with which they take
the rails is much larger than that Of
the ordinary engine. They are intend
ed for pulling long trains up the
heavy grades and the Santa Fe will
be able with these new engines to
take cars Of trains as long al other
roads do where the grades are only
moderately heavy.
The engines are the limit for size
and make an ordinary engine seem
like . pigmy By comparison. They
are much larger than the heavy
Brooks engines bought BY the North
ern Pacific some years ago to solve
the problem Of heavy grades on IT.
Rocky mountain division. II 10 the
theory Of railroad men to use the
heaviest engines that can b secured
and draw the longest trains possible
and In this way cut down the expense
Of train crews and other incidentAls
tAat coms with . large number o.
trains on . single track. The Santa
Te's experiment with these engines
will b. watched with interest By rail-
road men who are making speciica-
lions for larger engines and planning
to secure motive power that will ad-
NIT Of heavy trains over steep grades.
THE MEADOW CITY.
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