Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-18
RULER OF THE RAILS
DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRITISH
LOCOMOTIVE.
Great Engines That Draw Trains in
Britain and France-Speed
and Endurance.

ing one S ChOlCe or q monday haunt SupSer-
Went to the merits of the railway which
conveys ole thither. Say that one Journeys
to Cornwall. One feels that the Great
Western railway is aGdng an hour or so at
each end to ones fortnight calendar
month. owing to the wonderfully increased
rapidity of its trains. Moreover. by thus
choosing one may be pleasantly conscious
OF thinking imperially, that in one depal t.
ment of life the old country is first yet
namely in her railways
The Scotch Express.
You who are fortur ate enough to be leav-
ing King s-cross by that popular old-estab-
lished service the 10 am. Scotsman, watch
for the engine which will back down from
the Yards to haul the train on its first
flight of 1867 miles to Doncaster From
the terminus at Fotters Bar there are ten
miles of stiff gradient, but your powerful
steed will make light of it and of the 100
odd tons behind her; by IL o'clock her
record will not fall far short of three score
miles, and she will be at rest in Doncaster
station exactly at the appointed moment or
before it. splendid locomotive this; the
vast corporation of her boiler, boldly pro-
tuberant in a smoke box of remarkable ro-
tGndity, towers far above the roof level OF
an ordinary carriage, and bears upon it
squat funnel and dome, for no ordinary tun
nGl accommodate anything nlSDeI
Every line of her bespeaks sturdiness and
immense strength, yet beauty is not sac
rificed by her designer as an American or
continental engineer would have sacri-
feed it.
Two Famous Engines.
The heating surface of her boiler tubes
and firebox (the functions Of which are to
apply the heat of the furnace to the water.
and so produce the steam, SO that their
capacity gives an indication of the power of
the engne) is $500 square feet fully double
that of the late Mr. Strings famous type
of single drivers" She is of the so-called
Atlantic" pattern, the outward sign. of
which appears in the two great driving
wheels on either side feet inches in
diameter, set as closely together possible.
The driving rods from the cylinders connect
with the hinder pair of wheels, instead of
the front pair, as is more usual on English
railway engines. On the Great Northern,
indeed the first Atlantics were introduced
In this country, and beautiful engines they
are, of great length, strength and grace;
but with this new type they compare as the
6; ey hound with the mastiff.
On the northeastern section of the east
coast route our Scottish fiier will be taken
over perhaps by another Atlantic. beloning
to the Northeastern Company, whose engi-
neer was quick to appreciate the merits of
the type. Only less mighty than her south
ern relative is this monster with her 9 455 s
square feet of heating surface and her
feet 1O-inch drivers" One may see anothe
favorite type on this line, whose six-coupled
driving wheels, measuring feet IL inches
are calculated to give her remarkable trac-
tive force
A G. w. r. Titan.
Travellers on the Chemin de Fer du Nord
can hardly fail to marvel at the eXtraor-
binary speed developed by the great express
locomotive of that company. Recently the
writer was borne by one of them from
Amiens to Paris, a distance of eighty-two
miles, in eighty minutes, although a signal
brought US to a dead stop on the way These
engines, again, are Atlantics, constructed
on the special pattern of the well-known
french engineer-he is of English birth
hoWeVer-M. de Glenn, with whose abilities
me authorities of our own Great Western
company were so much impressed that
they ordered an engine to be built for their
metals from his designs, in collaboration
WIN vi; gu Bousquet, and named it la
france rms ambassadors of our friend
~ rivals IN the railway world is now hand
ing some of the fastest and heaviest ar
presses TO ana from the Paddington termi-
nus with conspicuous success Her annaar.
ance has evoked much admiration ana 90,
ment, Tor though she is adapted to the 49,
nsh model you at once recognize har % q
foreigner Her driving wheels mea sura g
1eet 81 inches, she is Of compound 49,
with hlgh and low cylinders. while her hea1
ing surface is 1926 square feet. bnt tbn,'ar,,
VI unusual length she has none az tba -,
pearance OF majestic power seen IN a. a.
Ainlon, contemporary from the Su,;,d i6iu
workshops. YIN 'iie S"inoon