The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-12-29
p|f|NDID IS
EQUIPMENT
|,,da East Coast Railway Adds
,vooty Modern Locomotives
4 SOLID STEEL TRAINS
..seeot Moving Palaces Will Be
t,oush Trains Next Wesk-tquipped
wan Axel Electrical Gen, rators

,,,.udid equipment, second to none
anywhere, will make the through
service over the Florida East
~ Railway this season veritable
,,;ar palaces. Three complete all
.Tf trains. twenty new locomotives
n electric lighting systems will
"a the trains binding the East
- together absolutely complete
q the standpoint of safety, comfort
dspeed. . ,
- If the Florida East Coast Rail
!, are among the most powerful
..uger locomotives in the South.
u have cylinders twenty inches in
mater BY twenty-six-inch stroke,
isht 1893, 500 pounds. carry a boiler
.{ure of two hundred pounds per
IA inch and are capable of main
rnr a schedule of forty miles per
I, on the tracks of the Florida East
|ut Railway with train of twelve
Ikm Pullman cars.
|Neir driving wheels, sixty.eight
lAm in diameter, insure the best
ahnation of speed and power, the
rv.rd part of the locomotive being
r;ed on a four-wheel center bear
,xing motion truck, and the rear
nadia trailing truck. The super
pture resting on nicely adjusted
IGur of crucible steel spring Sc
I'd to a system of equalizing
uns insures an easy riding engine,
one that will take the train into
Int of curves without shock.
tenders of these locomotives
= six thousand gallons of water
len tons of coal, and are carried
no Fox patent pressed steel trucks.
iAse locomotives are equipped with
latest type Westinghouse air
hes, Pyle national electric head
th, Gold system of steam heat for
nling trains, and are thoroughly up
Ma In every particular.
N latest type of these locomotives,
buty Of which We're received during
pst summer and fall. have cylin-
h twenty-five inches in diameter by
Inty.six.inch stroke. weigh two hun
h and three thousand five hundred
nds, and are about ten per cent
N powerful than those just describ-
They are equipped with the Loco
seSuperheater Company's Schmidt
w. su, ,erheaters, and carry boiler
aare of one hundred and eighty
nd per square inch, Only the best
Material and workmanship enter in.
uastruction of these locomotives.
nfee complete all-steel trains will
rovided. There are fourteen cars
" consisting of mail. baggage, ex-
- and coaches, made in the shops
v Pullman Company. All are of
shtest type and construction. They
slectrically lighted throughout by
lnle generating device which also
nhhes current for the electric fans
are also installed in the coaches.
Neches are seventy feet iE length,
lped with comfortable high-back
and have cOmmodiOus smoking
nents. That the comfort and
Of passengers was the para
= idea in the designing and con-
mon Of these cars is apparent to
The casual observer.
per wires are being strung for
lone dispatching and phones will
seated at every station along the
q East Coast Railway from Jack
11e 70 Key West In addition all
will be equipped so that when
ny they can connect direct with
geln dispatcher, regardless of the
e OF the train. This will go far
enabling the company to pro-
schedule Of the highest efficiency.
1og the past summer about one
g miles of additional sidetracks
put IN and the yards at division
ntters and at important stations
aaterially increased and improved.
extension to Key West, to be
January %, was colossal UNI
n and is admittedly the most
snt work of the age to the ma
~ to the Panama canal. This
% makes the main line of the
East Coast Railway five hun
20 twenty-five miles long, con-
together as a string of rare
y the winter resorts of the
Riviera, beginning with Jack
% the north and in their order,
ugustine, Ormond, Daytona,
myrna, Titusville. Rockledge,
ne. Fort Pierce. Palm Beach,
Long Key Camp, Key West,
ace by six hour boat ride to
tne pleasure seeker is landed in
OF the pearl of the Antilles. :"
ppense has been spared in max
florida East Coast Railways
It's patrons second to none