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Title: The American transportation problem; a study of American transportation conditions, with a view to ascertaining what policy Americans should adopt in order to effectively meet existing conditions and be prepared to continue to lead the nations in the march of progress and civilization
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Peyton, John Howe
Subjects: Transportation Inland navigation Railroads
Publisher: Louisville, Ky., Courier-Journal Job Printing Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE MOST POWERFUL LOCOMOTIVE EVER BUILT. It weighs 573,000 pounds, and can haul a train two miles long carrying10,000 tons of freight. (From Putnams Monthly—Issue of March, 1908.) 238 The report of the Board of Engineers, dated August 26, 1905, says: The freight which moves between Cliicago and St. Louis is nowcarried by three railroads—the Chicago & Alton, the Illinois Centraland the Wabash. During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, thequantity of freight moved by these three roads from Chicago to St.Louis was 449,115 tons, and from St. Louis to Chicago was 633,182tons. The total freight moved, therefore, was 1,082,297 tons. The prairie country lying between the two cities is remarkablysmooth, and railroads with grades nearly level may be built at com-paratively small cost. A locomotive has recently been put in service
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GIANT MALLET TYPE LOCOMOTIVE, BUILT BY BALDWINLOCOMOTIVE WORKS. Built for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Weight of locomotive andtender, approximately 300 tons. Tractive power, 95,000 pounds. This loco-motive can move a train weight of 15,834 tons on a level track. on the Erie Railroad that can, on a level track, propel a train weigh-ing 10,000 tons. A single Mikado locomotive has recently hauled atrain load of 7,000 tons over the new Virginian Railway, from Nor-folk, Virginia, to Roanoke, Virginia, the latter town being 1,000 feetabove the level of the former; and single locomotives have recentlyhauled train-load of 6,922 tons on the Pennsylvania Railroad; and agiant Mallet type locomotive has recently been built, for the South-ern Pacific Railroad, that is capable of moving a train-load of nearly16,000 tons on a level track. Existing conditions forbid the handlingof trains of such weight, but as grades are reduced, lines straightened, 239 and roadways improved, the .weight of trains

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