The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1909-11-24
A RAILROAD MAMMOTH.
New Santa Fe Locomotive Weigh
ing 100000 pounds just be-.
cred. Intended for Fast
Passenger Trains.
Others to Follow.

.. The largest, heaviest and mos
I powerful passenger engine eve.
JuiiI has just been competed, -,
lne BALDWIN Locomotive worhs A.
Philadelphia, and delivered TO Ills
oAnLa re, Tor use IN haunng tue
Canlornia Limited and otner iass
passenger trains between Sellgmah
arizona, and Needles, CALIFORNIA.
This monster OF the rain oau
morIu is what Is known as Ma
let articuiated compound, being IL
SANITY Two engines in one.
100 Ieet long, 10 teet, inches IL.
AeignI ana weighs bvU.vOV pou..--
Oruue petroleum is used as i.~
and 1t Is estimated that the 4,vVt
gallons OF oil, and 12.UVv g...-
noId, will carry a tram 100 miles
Without a stop. even on the noun
lain grades OF western Arizona.
me engine is designed for speeo
is well as to develop great power.
me five pairs of driving wneeis,
saen rs inches in diameter a.
worked in two sets. Ine rear tnre~
pairs are driven by high press4.-
-yiinders, and the Two rorwafe
pairs by low pressure cylinders.
An engine as long as this levi
ltnan built along ordinary line
~ltn rigid frame, would have dill
.iculty in negotiating even ordin-
.ry curves. To overcome this mos.
serious objection. the designer H..
Quilt the frame of these monsters
N Two parts SO arranged that
will give on the curves. In
official tests this engine took
sixteen degree curve as easily as
switch engine and without reduc-
don of speed.
Ihe feed water-pipes are equip
ped with a heater that raises the
temperature of the water to above
polling point before admitting IL
to the boiler. After the steam mas
Jeen generated to a register q
.Jout zoo pounds to the squar.
inch 1t is sent through super
heater before passing to the high
pressure cylinders. After perform
ing this duty. the steam goes into
a reheater for rejuvenation before
entering the low pressure cyiin-
ders. from here it exhausts through
the stack.
This engine is the first one for
passenger service, built on Maliets
desjsn. and the first to combine
ie-d water-heater. super-heater anu
.eheater in the same machine. AS
A measure of comparison 1t may be
stated that this locomotive develops
a TRACTION power of $1,000 pouncs
o! 80 800 pounds in the next most
powerful passenger engines ever
DuIit
A second locomotive exactly dup
.i.,ating the one described is nearly
ready for delivery. In addition to
these passenger engines. the Bald
win company have under way Two
Mallet compounds for Santa Fe
freight service. These machines are
larger in every way than those in
tena.d for passenger service. save
IL the matter of drive wheels. they
are but 60 inches in diameter. Thei
weight is to be 100000 pounds each
The ordering of these monster
machines is in line with the advanc-
ed ideas that characterize the
santa Fe in all departments
If these engines perform the work
expected of them, others will be
ordered for use on the several
mountain divisions of the Santa
Fe.
The development Of the Ameri--
can locomotive is one of the mar
vels of the age. Twenty years
ego the monsters of the rails were
AS feet long, 10 feet high ana
weighed but $4,000 pounds. These
new mountain climbers of the Santa
Fe will make the old time heavy
weights look like toys.
The big engine will be put on ex-
hibition for a few days. in Chicago.
after which it will proceed west to
enter regular service.