Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1906-12-14
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL
NEW RAILROAD EQUIPMENT.

Passenger and Freight Locomotives for
Rratteboro and New London Division
Of Central Vermont.
When contemplated changes are
made in bridges on the Central Vermont
railway system between this city and
Brattleboro there will be important
changes in the equipment of the road,
says the New London Telegraph of yes
terday. The Central Vermont has re-
Gently purchased four new bridges and is
only waiting the installation of these to
put a large number of new locomotives
of the latest improved type into service.
The engines are already in service on
the northern division and comprise some
of the finest pieces of machinery owned
by any railroad. They were turned out
at the Schenectady locomotive works
Four Of the engines will be the largest
locomotives which have ever been seen in
New London. They are designed for
freight service and each of them will have
a hauling capacity OF 1000 tons They
are compound engines with eight connect
ed driving wheels. Each driver is five
feet in diameter. The cylinders measure
221s by 33 inches and 35 by 20 inches.
Each engine light weighs 192500 and the
tank weighs 122,700 pounds. The loco
motives will have tender capacity for
5000 gallons of water and IA tons of coal.
They will carry 225 pounds of steam
AS each of the engines stands there is
a weight of 167. 900 pounds on her driv-
ing wheels, with $4,000 pounds on her
lead truck. Each engine will stand H.
$50 pounds on each of her drivers Other
engines which are also to be put in SER
vice on this division when the bridges
are put in place are known as the Con-
solidated engine These locomotives also
each have eight connected driving
wheels. The cylinder dimensions are 81
by 26 and the weight of the locomotive
is $4,000 pounds The road has also
been equipped with four new standard
passenger engines which are also to go
into service here. These engines are of
the ten wheeled variety and each weighs
100000 pounds. They have five and one
half foot driving wheels and a steam
pressure of 200 pounds TO the square
inch. Each of the engines will carry
5000 gallons of water in her tank and
ten tons of coal in the tender. The tank
weighs 1227O0 pounds.
The compound engines for freight SER
vice will be considerably larger than the
largest engines which come into New
London now. The four bridges which
are to be put in are all but one compare
lively near New London. The nearest is
at Waterford, the next at Willimantic.
another at Stafford with the fourth at
Millers Falls, Mass.
The bridges have been purchased and
delivered and they are on the ground
awaiting installation. They will be put
up by the Ameican Bridge company.
The time when the motive power i'm
provements will go into service depends
entirely on how soon the bridge company
can get the bridges up. If work is start
ed soon it is expected that IL would be
completed within three months and the
new locomotives put in use on this divis-
ion within that time.
new 20 foot turnJable has been in
stalled here to accommodate the larger
engines, and another of the same size at
Brattleboro The roadbed aside from the
bridges is in readiness now for the new
locomotives. Seventy-two pound rails
are laid between this city and Brattle-
boro, fitting the bed for the heaviest
kind of traffic