Arizona republican., 1913-09-05
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Two New Engines Arrive, Advance Guard of Others. Will Be Placed in Com mission Today-Are of MikadO Type

Larger by nearly double the old en- zines in use are the two new locomo- tiVes now housed in the Phoenix rOundhOuse, which will be placed in commission this morning on the Arizona Eastern. The two engines are of the Mikado type built by the Baldwin Lo- COmotive works and are but the van guard of the engines that are now on the way. These engines will be placed in the ore train service between Hay den and Ray and are expected to nego- tiate the long haul and steep climb be- tween the two places with ease. The engines will be officially known IS 9O1 and 9O2 901 will leave for Hayden this morning at 10: 30 and immediately upon her arrival at Hayden will be placed in service handling one of the biggest ore trains ever sent over the road in fact she will be called upon to daily do the work of two of the engines now in service.
 The Arizona Eastern Railway com pany have for a long time been anxious to replace their equipment on the Hayden Ray branch with the latest known in the world, but owing to the delay in receiving the engines it has
 
 work as economically as they wished. The new ore rates have made it inn perative for the railroad to put the lat est equipment upon the road in order to make money for it's shareholders and with two trains on the road and 1 the ensuing slowing of speed it has 1 been impossible for them ii move all the ore that can be shipped between the | two towns. The grade to the concen- l trator and smelter has been the bug l bear of the engineers of the line as they have heretofore had to split their trains and haul them up in sections 9O1 and 9O2 the new engines weigh 1 when two thirds equipped two hundred 1 and eleven tons each, they are S1 feet | in length and measure Is feet from the rails to the top of the engine cab. They | carry boiler pressure of 1S0 pounds | to the square inch and this steam be- l fore entering the cylinders is super l heated until it maintains a pressure Ot 1 800 pounds. The firebox and boiler | tubes have a heating surface of 5,35C square feet. The tractive power Ot l these new giants is enormaus as they 1 can haul with ease 45,422 tons which | compared with the average tractiV'
 power of an ordinary locomotive 28,-
 900 tons. gives some idea of their size | and strength.
 | When the balance of the big engines 1 arrive all the ore handling service vii
 be equipped with this type and the fol 1 lowing figures will show the immenst | amount of work that has been planned 1 for these giants. The daily weight O ore that is handled from the mines 1T 1 Ray is 14,000 tons and that hauled from | the Chino mine in New Mexico is saiC | to be still larger. All this ore is brought | to Hayden and with the new railroad | equipment the cOncentrator and smel- ter in that town should have enough
 work to warrant a substantial increase
 in the plant and working force.
 The balance of the engines are eX- | pected to arrive this week and will b' 1 immediately shipped out to their new
 work. By the time that the new shop!
 are completed it is said that the en-
 tire engine force wil be new as sev-
 eral new passenger locomotives havt
 been ordered to be here in time tc handle the large amount of passenge
 traffic this fall.