Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1906-12-14
NEW BRIDGES AND ENGINES
NEW EQUIPMENT FOR SOUTHERN
DIVISION OF CENTRAL VERMONT
Four New Bridges Have Been Purchas'
ed and as Soon as They are Installed
New Locomotives Will be Put on the
Division-Many New Engines.

When contemplated changes are made
in the bridges on the Central Vermont
railway system between this city and
Brattleboro there will be important
changes in the equipment OF the road
The Central Vermont has recently pur-
chased four new bridges and is only
awaiting the installation of these TO
put large number of new locomotives
Of the latest improved type into ser
vice. The engines are already IN SER
vice on the Northern division and COM
prise some of the finest pieces of mach
incry owned by any railroad. They
were turned out at the Schenectady To-
comOtive 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 hauling capacity
of 1000 tons. They are compound en-
gines with eight connected driving
wheels. Each driver is five feet IN
diameter. The cylinders measure 22i2
by 80 inches and 50 by % inches. Each
engine light weight weighs l92,5OO and
the tank weighs l22,70O poundo. The
locomotives 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 10000 pounds on her
driving wheels, with $4,000 pounds on
her lead truck. Each engine Will
stand 1850 pounds on each of her
drivers. Other engines which are also
TO be put in service ON this DIVISION
when the bridges are put in place are
known rs the Consolidated engine.
These locomotives also have eight con-
nected driving wheels each. The cyl
inder dimensions are q by 20 and the
weight of the locomotive is l31 900
pounds. The road has also been equip
ned with four new standard passenger
engines which are also to go into SER
vice 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 these engines
will carry 5000 gallons of water in her
tank and ten tons of coal in the tender.
The tank weighs l22,700 pounds.
The compound engines for freight
service will be considerably larger than
the largest engines which come into
New London now. The four bridges
which are to be put "a are all but one
comparatively 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 viii be put
up by the American Bridge company
The time when the motive power i'm
provements will go into service depends
entirely on how soon the bridge com
pany can get the bridges up. If work
is started soon it is expected that it
will be completed within three months
and the new locomotives put in use on
this division within that time.
A new 70-foot turntable has been in
stalled here to accommodate the larger
engines. and another of the same size
at Brattlebero. The roadbed, aside
from the bridges is in readiness now
for the new locomotives. Seventy-two
pound rails are laid between this city
and Brattleboro, fitting the bed for the
heaviest kind of traffic.-New London
Telegraph.