Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-10

turned out In 1852, ana other interesting
historic relics, including the highest type OF
passenger engines exhibited at the Phila-
oeiphia centennial. which was mo. 000' Of
the Baltimore and Ohio Company, and
weighed sixty tons. The highest type OF
passenger engine exhibited at Chicago was
tne Director General" weighing 1O2 tons,
while the biggest engine here. the est.
Louis" weighs 24O tons, the largest by
twenty tons ever constructed. 1t was built
by the American Locomotive Company for
the freight service OF the Baltimore and
Ohio road. It is eighty-two feet long. while
an ordinary locomotive is sixty-five or sew
enty feet, and fifteen feet high. The fire
box Is as big as the ordinary bed room OF
city apartment house, and 1t has nearly
two miles Of tubes In its boilers. The next
largest locomotive is the santa Fe' of 220
tons. The Santa Fe Railroad Company has
eighty OF that type hauling their freight
trains over the mountains.
leaving narrow gauge, switching and
other light engines out of consideration,
there were at the Chicago exposition twen-
ty-nfne American locomotives, having an
average weight of 12S. 55S pounds. Here are
Twenty-Five from the same companies with
an average weight of 1876 .23g pounds. At
Chicago the heaviest locomotive weighed
OS.4SO pounds; at ST. Louis the heaviest
weighs 393.O12 and the next heaviest 2S7,-
$50 pounds.
The most advanced types of engines ex-
hfbited at Chicago are now used for local
traffic. for the present style Of engines can
uTdW nearly twice as neaVy q train aver
aging 1900 tons over ordinary grades at
slight increase of expense for fuel. The
purposes of locomotive builders at the pres
ent day Is to secure the greatest strength
with the greatest economy.
There has been no notable increase in
speed since the Chicago exposition, but the
locomotive of today can maintain the same
rate of speed with double the load OF cars
Imported for Experimental Purposes.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
brought from France locomotive built at
Belfort at a cost of about 25.0OO The best
Badwins cost about 900. The Pennsyl-
vania Company paid 5000 duty upon its
imported engine. The manufacturers claim
that 1t is capable of making ninety miles
an hour with an ordinary train, ana the
Pennsylvania company has brought 1t over
for experimental purposes, to bring out It's
advantages over American engines and 70
see what features are valuable LOT US. ~
was designed by Alfred de Glenn, F'rencn
engineer and is the parent engine OF the
type There have been limitations or what
may be called TRANSACTIONS into Engisn
manufactured In the Onlteo States anu
they, too. will be tested. ,.,
Engineers say that the Difficulty win
high-speed passenger engines IS ina. .ns
reciprocating parts create vibrations anu
internal disturbances which make II uhsaie,
wear it out and injure the tracks. In otner
words, the ordinary American ehglNe :. 10 So! AZ
danger Of shaking itself to pieces II II runs
too fast M. de Glenn, a French ensi ner,,
has designed a four-cylinder paiaace ee I'LL
pound engine, in which for every reclprocal
part that is travelling in one direction .net re-
is another part Of equal weight traVeiins =. ,l
the opposite direction with equal veIoci,s
This neutralizes the vibration, makes ..e
engine ride easily and enables IL 70 at.ai
q hiph rate of speed without INJURY 10 i.eetA
or the track and without danger 10 tne pa;S ,,
senpers. The test of this loeomotNe W.
he Watched with exceeding interest NY 'ne
ootire railway WOrlO. 4hofr
The Germans have brought over tns'r
HIGHEST type of locomotive, calico '. ~
wind splitter" with which they ciai.h oo
have made ninety miles an hour win III Ut
naus nnd eighty miles with six cars, put
60 cars are considerably lighter tnai
a emrs That locomotive will also be testei'
ia ITO presence adds greatly to the inter.
oct and the value of the experiment
10 claimed. however. that the hlshes. r..S
of sDeed made by both the German ILL
the French locomotives mentioheo We, ~
sinnly little spurts over short pieces W
f~arable track. If that is the case we
have lust as much to brag about IN our
own ordinary everyday passenger loeoino
tiyes. Pennsylvania railroad tram VI
eight cars has been hauled by an oruiiaIS
engine at the rate of ninety-fve Hiies an
bnnr between Philadelphia and Atlantic
C,ity while the regular trains over va.
line will average sixty miles an nour, ahu
makes the fastest short run In the WORM
The fastest long run In the world Is i,:tus
by the Empire State Express on .ne v>.M
Work Central 4SO miles between New 1orh
and RuffaIo. in a little over eight hours.
The average is fifty-eight miles an hour' IN
c,udine stops, and at several places lne
train runs at the rate or seVehty-hVe anu
often eighty miles an hour.