The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-01
NEW MONSTER ENGINE
BIGGEST LOCOMOTIVE EVER ON M
 & RI. DIVISION.
Great Hauler of Commerce. Has All Modern Appliances anag Number of Similar Engines Will Soon
 Be Delivered as. --ter

Probably the largest passenger loco- motive that ever ran on the Mobile and Montgomery division of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad went south on train No. yesterday morning.
 The monster Is equipped with all of the most modern appliances and im- provements, steel cab, etc, while the water. The capacity of the tender is fourteen tons of coal--enough to run several average families in the great est comfort through the winter. There are six immense driving wheels, three on each side, and smaller trailer" wheel in the rear of the drivers, on each side.
 The monster was the object of great curiosity and admiration by railroad men and through passengers as 1t stood snorting under the train shed yesterday morning. Several more of these big engines will be delivered to the Mobile and Montgomery division and five to the South and North divis- ion. The steel bridges on the M. and M and the general strengthening of all of them from Montgoniefy to Mo bile makes 1t safe for the heaviest en- zine built to run over the division in perfect safety.
 Some years ago the engine that left Montgomery yesterday morning could not have run over the division on ac- count of the bridges which were then Just beginnilsy to be repaired. A year or so ago, 1t will be remembered, sew eral of the monster Southern Pacific engines had to be sent back to Bir- mingham and down the Alabama Great Southern to New Orleans. the bridges on the M. and M. division not being able to handle the tremendous weight It is different now. and the heaviest locomotive running over any road in the United States can run from here to Mobile In safety. The engine that went out yesterday was the 150. Engi- neer Arthur PayTiAAnd Conductor Wal ter Scott taking the big machine and the train to Mobile.
 The Southern has ordered 1,250 plain box cars of 6O,0O0 pounds capacity of the Western Steel Car and Foundry Company. These ears will be built at
 the company's plant at Anniston, Ala It is reported that 750 of the same kind have been ordered of the Mount Yer
 non Car Manufacturing Company E. A. Bust having resigned as Trav- cling Freight and Passenger Agent of the Louisville and Nashville at Att | lanta. Ga, that office has been abolish | ed and the duties assigned to Fl. s. | McDaniels, with the title of Commer- cial Agent. C. L. Whaley has been appointed Soliciting Freight Agent at Selma. Ala
 l A series of intercollegiate debates | has been arranged between the univer- sities of Pennsylvania, Cornell and Co., lumbia, each institution to meet the | two others. upon the subject:
 Resolved. That the Interstate Com merce Commission should be vested with authority, after full hearing of any formal complaint, to prescribe the
 maximum reasonable and equitable railroad rates to be substituted for those found unreasonable or discrimi- native: the order of the commission,
 unless superseded by writ of injunction | of a United States Circuit Court. to be- come operative at the expiration of thirty days notice to the carrier, and Ito continue in force thereafter unless
 suspended by order of Federal cir- cult Court"