The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-25
Over HALF MILE
Of NEW ENGINES
One of the Grandest TranSpor-
taii0n Sights Ever Seen in
History Of Utah.
81 900. 900 IN POWER
FOR WESTERN PACIFIC
Fifty-Fiye New Engines Stretch
Half Mile and Being
Fitted Up Here.

Half a milc OF engines, over Sl,0ooOoo
worth az engines. rifty-siN magnificent
new machines. stand In cold, silent grau-
Jeur allng six slde;racks of the West
ern Pacific railroad yards in this city
They have hecn here for n week and
lougo-. but will SOON leave !or the West
Then. Till tho scrap pile receives them
some wears hence they will pull from
sea 10 SUBMITS scross tho great deserts
az Utah ard Ncyada the traffic of Il
continent.
This artillery ot civilization. these trc-
mcnGous things OF peace parked as they
are Tor a few days IN this city make the
;yrdudost picture 81 transportation ever
sccn IN Salt Lake. All the horses on
al tha streets and oil the ranges OF Utah
cannot pull ara run as they can. In
thelr still glittcriuy Beauty IS something
.ndcfnahle, something that reminds ono
ot monster battieship sleeping IT an
cnor but ready 10 burst into a vol
cano OF intelligent action ut the touch
Of sriiny hand.
HALF a Mije Of Engines.
Like ail great things. these engines
diJ not come ali At once, but in thrccs
md :ours, Il few at tlmc. unannounccd
aad. except :or chose who watch. unseen.
They camc. as rule. Iuur in freight
team, placed five cars apnrl cach IN
charge ot an engineer. Tor again. IKE
q hai,lcshiT. these great monsters are
az delicate as II watch No power runs
on wheels capable ct pulling all OF them
in one spectacular line nearly 1000 feet
long, no roadbed In the world could stand
the strain OF their crushing weight
\ newspaper once published an mag
mary picture OF the Eroctlyn bridge with
five battlcShips swuUE i'm the air helo"
II, Just to illustrate To tho eye what ihs
bridge, according la theory. would en-
dure. But no railroad man would trusi
i!Icsc darlinSs on amy bridge: They must
20 two or three a IA time. for the thou
Sands ot tons with which they crush
The earth would break the heart Of the
strongest strugor OF steel, would pulNcr-
iIc the most solid masonry support or
bUttTcSS OF concrete.
These, Too, Shall Pass Away.
A {. Langton is the man Who guards
them. IL seems almost comlcal 10 watch
tic little human pgmy standing watch
over these monsters that would roll over
him and never know nor care; II seems
laughablc till one recalls that such as
he has made all this matter come from
tho bowels OF the earth pass through the
he'll OF the blast furnace and taken
final polished form in such as these. The
handful OF brains that has created the en-
g!ncs can and win form greater ones.
These. too. shah pass away.
BY their side stand four OLD wrecks,
lusted now and dsjointed. that. lilSe
these. We're onco the fnest engines In
Utah. They arc Nos. 5l. 81 5% and 81.
that in 1889. twenty years ago. rolled
proudly into Salt Lake, the steel scouts
day they will roll no more, and, like
the road itself have been Swallowed up
IN that which came later for the Rio
GranGe Western has long been absorbed
by the larger Denver & Rio Grande
And these enSincs-they are not en-
snes now but metallic -sliosts-scem TO
where once they blackened the heavens
With their smoke aud shook the ground
with their whirling drivers.
Told by Watchman.
And the grim old I<londllcer. standing
guard there by their sides. is of the
breed that made all this possible, Sus-
uicious, a trine hostile as IL one we're
about 70 jump the frozen placer that
he worked so fruitlessly while he Saw
inc Ice come and GO courteously but
watchman stopped Tho Tribune railroad
reporter, But telegram from President
Icncrv Of the Western Pacific thawcd
aim out into one of the most interesting
~ guides,
Eight Mallett compounds for Bingham
and Soldier summit" he said. 'rhc
Western Pacific is owned by the Denver
* Rio Grande. and some OF the engines
here are for operation on that road too.
Traffic VIII come from San Francisco.
pass through. Salt Lake. climb the noun
talns behind these 5eantles, and go down
the winding grades with shrieking brake
shoes into Denver. Then on 10 Chicago,
ST. Louis and the East
I'VE didn't have such as these In
Alaska: We had only snowshoes and dogs.
Twenty of the engines arc not here; they
are out pulling on the Rio Grandc right
this minute, No. 10. like those three
there, went out OF here this morning
with nine coaches as II she were going
somewhcres. Ought to see her run.
Running Dead Engines.
"AE with a, & T. equipment; that
gives the engineer full control OF the
train. See. here it is and he pointed
with his stick 10 twist of pipes under
The cab window, Il don't know what it
means. but they all have Them Water
brakes, too. They used the water brakes
coming here from the East, as they had
no steam 10 brake with. There was a
man with each one IN keep II oiled, for
= dead engine requires even more watch
ing than does live one. Different from
mon. l guess.
Schenectady, y. j. Left there Septem
her y and got here in just thirtytwo
days. The passenger engines are let
tered in gold ami the freight in silver.
Have electric headlights. and all that
And every one OF them las the new
German invention, the Walsart valve mo-
lion. See. here IT is. All outside where
NO man has had the nerve 10 Gviyc
an engine us fast as that waive will work.
The frcighis have the slide valve and
the passengers the piston vavcs The
olo engines had the valves In under them,