The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-05-10
LARGE ROLLING STOCK
ORDER IS COMPLETE
3. & o. Mammoth Contract Of Last
Year Has Been Filled.
MILES or CARS AID ENGINES
Purchased at An Aggregate Cost OF
Sixteen Millions of Do!Ears-lnl-
mense Car Traffic of Line Requir-
ed Expenditure

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The delivery Of the $50 locomotives
and ten thousand freight cars, ordered
by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad dur
ing May Of last year, has just been COM
pleted and are now in service with the
other equipment This greatly aug
ments the company's facilities for
promptly handling the largely increased
and enormous volumes of traffic, and,
combined with the improvement to
track and transportation conditions and
better maintenance Of all rolling stock
insures an efficiency in handling bust
ness second to no railroad in the coun-
try.
The magnitude Of this order Of rail
road equipment is not conceived by the
general public. With an expenditure
Of about SIC, 600, 900, much work was in
volved in furnishing the enormous
quantity of material for the equipment,
which, when in services, would be sure
to greatly aid the earning powers of the
road and much more than insure the re-
imbursing to the company for the money
so spent. Such an expenditure serves
to show the necessity which existed for
sufficient capacity to promptly and
properly handle the constantly increas-
ing traffic on the road, and also is an in
dication of the general trade prosperity
throughout the country.
The aggregate length of the 25O loco
motives, if placed in line and coupled
together, would stretch over a distance
of 81 miles. If placed side by side and
end to end, they would cover an area of
four acres. The total number of cubic
feet, which would be occupied if these
locomotives were placed in pile would
be equivalent to mass 300 feet long,
AZ feet wide and 200 feet high. OF the
number, 10 are Consolidation type
freight engines measuring 68 feet, 81
inches in length from the tip of pilot to
over the drawhead of the tender, 200
are consolidation type freight engines,
measuring 68 feet, u inches in length
from the tip Of the pilot to over the
drawhead of the tender. Thirty-fve
are Pacific. type passenger locomotives
Y feet, 9 inches long; and five switch
ing engines 70 feet 44 inches long.
If the boiler tubes were placed in
line end to end, they would reach dis
lance of PA miles, or within lG miles of
the total distance from Washington to
New York. The heating surface in the
boilers would cover 16 acres and the
combined CRATE area would be the same
as one-third of an acre.
The aggregate weight of these en-
gines and tenders, in working order, is
AZ, 525 tons. The water in the tanks,
assuming all to be filed, would be equiv
alent to pool $50 feet long, Sc feet
wide and % feet deep; and the coal in
the tenders would make a rectangular
pile 100 feet long, A feet wide and IS
feet high.
Imagine the enormous power Of these
locomotives, when the total length of
train which would be hauled by them
if all were coupled together, would be
1873 miles, consisting of about ZOO
loaded ears of $4,000 ID. capacity and
the total weight of the train would be
about 929, 430 tons.
The total amount Of ccal burned bv
these locomotives in one day, working
under ordinary conditions, would be
about 3, 200 tons. To haul this amount
of coal would require a train Of 65 cars
of capacity Of 100000 pounds each,
and the number Of scoops-full of coal
represented would be about 375, 600.
The combined tractive power of these
locomotives would be about 4, $40 tons.
This order was given very close
study and attention by Mr.. J. L. Muhl-
fel, generel superintendent Of motive
power, who is known to be one Of the
most thorough motive power experts in
the country, in order to secure the yery
best design that would accomplish the
most satisfactory general results. With
this new equipment the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad and its affiliated lines now
has about 2,O75 locomotives and 9O. 600
freight cars in service.
Of the ten thousand freight cars, the
length Of the $4,000 10. capacity box
cars over couplers, is 43 feet, IA in
ches; for the steel hopper cars, sc feet.
Sd inches; for the steel twin hopper
gondola cars, As feet, inches; for the
composite low side hopper end gondola
cars, 45 feet, 2 IL inches; and for the
Rodger Ballast cars, Al feet, 8 "a
inches.
The aggregate length of the 10, 900
cars, if coupled together, would be
about 70 3-4 miles To show the differ
ence in size and hauling capacity, the
total length of similar lot of cars
which were the standard ten years ago,
if divided into the same classes as these
cars, would be 67 miles.
This order of new cars, if placed side
by side and end to end would cover an