New-York tribune., 1905-04-25
RUNS II MILES An HOUR.
Nez0 Erie Locomotive Races 1cith
HeaUy Ten Car Train.

''Fifty-one ifty-two, ffty-three ffty-four fifty
five miles an hour pretty good for train!'
called d. w. Cook, assistant traffic manager Of
the Erie Railroad, TO the little group company
officials and newspaper men curiousIy scanning
the speed dial in end of President Under
woods private 1t was the trial run Of the
Erie's big Pacific locomotive that took place
yesterday over the New-York division The big
machine was tearing the brow of Enymard
Hill toward Otisville. Behind it were ten heavy
private cars and Pullmans. the train weighing in
all 1.2OS05O pounds
''Fifty-six. ffty-seven. hfty-eightr the counting
continued the country danced by faster and
faster.
To the railroad men who understood what such
speed meant. with SO great load. it was becoming
exciting.
Bet dollar she'n make sixtEr
Take you
Other bets followed fast as each higher mark
was made
"sixty-one sixty-two. sixty-three. sxty-four."
There she hung while. "Sixty-ive. sixty-six six
ty-seven, sixty-eight. sixty -nine'-another pause
Seventy
There a chorus of cheers.
Then slowly the needle Crcpt up and up. hovered
for moment at Il. while the trees blurred together
then dropped back to the comparative snaTs pace
of a mile a minute.
Rode like bird under a 2Oo-no,D5 ,,r. 81.
said old Jack Sullivan, the wtry little engineer
as he stood proudly by the cab step at Port Jerys
Inc huge machine is fresh from the American
is of he
type built for the Rocky Mountains and is nav- in
the East Her weight is $50 $50 pounds with the
tender fuel and water Her 26-inch cylinders con-
meet with six drvewheels feet inches in Diane
Ter each. The boiler'is 70 inches in diameter and
the hrebox lOSl@ inches long In short she has all
the weight and power Of a freight ''rnocl1I with
the speed of an express
II IS this type of engine that the Erie homes will
soive the problem OF keeping 10 the schedule on +b
SletP, grades or the New York division
~ c[eSSlIg traffic. The trial yesterd1v Iad ~
iiCIeIS 10 DeHeVe the problem was solved Tr is -
@ % nave engines with power enough IN keer
up speed under all emergencies of incrsased ~
.tlu !lt1Vy weather. With the lighter r,acb 10
tht present IL IS necessary divide "
impossible to make time ~ 'oi4 II - oitel
esterddy the train followed tho s,ra7..,-
buLIo Express which leaves Jersey C'ft, ~ 1,se is
T. NJ d tram TWO cars lighter than the trial -
~ o'"lS !cIudeu the run yesterday was r1alI. l..
noutS ana Il minutes for the eightv-cight nil" "
III. IeI VS. nc scheduled time of the regular -
~ ~ i6t 7eheHectady the week before the eng5a
L'l ~ ulIeS without taking water and 9-i
ItCCodIlhS; a record in both instances " "4'"out
ho o.IleI similar engines have been ordered .,5
oJnerS are expected to follow 'eN anu
Inc officials present on the run ,,ast..r,,,
j; =. stuart, general mInager; T. II ere
9LS StsSHI general manager; d. ". Cook 80. a.
.L'tt H5tI't%tr George Van keenan, s.aprr.i
ten5n,t..' :; y. W Widen. mechanical srneriy1
tIiu-+'Ii D. = 3afrOW, assistant general ~
St5cii' dilGS Bourke engineer of nainter5rn,l ,I
It ~. -ISlon superintendent of The Nfv- NSni
NJ = Rodchc assistant ofvision .,I.N tN
ITII,ie"I w > Schlofgi, master mechanic -
ii-ln1,Il president of Amcric:r a. y
,NoIkS; J. h Ennis and J. d. Sav-ver q - motive
ICtu locomotive Works: r A S11a,- - - - tiltT-
'-'' anu tracy Bronson, of the Nev-YOrIz Cei,l