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Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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Fours Fast Run. Some time ago we made mention of aparticularly fast run over the Cleveland,Columbus, Cincinnati & St. Louis, andnow, through the kindness of Mr. Thco.C. Becke, of St. Louis, we are able toshow an illustration of the engine thatmade the fastest run, taken from a photo-graph which he sent us. (Trade Mark Rcgl»t<r<«I.J ^nd Rolling Stock- NEW YORK, JULY, 1897. miles. The run from Indianapolis toCleveland, 283 miles, was made by eight-wheel engines having cylinders (8 x 24inches, driving wheels 62 inches diameter,and 1,600 square feet of heating surface. The entire run of 545 miles was coveredin II hours 18 minutes. With delay-- inactual stops deducted, the time used inrunning was 0 hours 55 minutes. From No. 7. Rue, 37-10 miles in 3 minutes, or 74miles per hour; Wellington to Grafton,11 1-5 miles in g/2 minutes, or 69.7 milesper hour. The engine shown performedthis unusual high-speed feat. A locomotive recently built for the Bal-anced Locomotive and Engineering
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The train carried the Geisha OperaCompany, and consisted of five cars,weighing 351,000 pounds, exclusive ofpassengers and baggage. Eight-wheelengines, with cylinders 18^2 x 24 inches,driving wheels 68 inches diameter, andboih-r giving 1,725.6 square feet of heat-ing surface, pulled the train from St.Louis to Indianapolis, a distance of 262 BIG FOUR RECORD BREAKER. that it will be >een that the 545 miles wererun in 595 minutes, an average of 55.3Smiles per hour. The greatest speed was attained betweenMitchell and Comstock. on St. Louisdivision, 3 2-10 miles in 2.4 minut76.3 miles per hour: Gays to Mattoon. 12miles in io minutes, or 72 miles per hour.On Cleveland division—Marchs to La Company, of Xew York, after the designsof Mr. Geo. S. Strong, has been put inthe mechanical laboratory of Purdue Lniir the purpose of being thor-oughly tested. It is a 4-cylinder com-pound. 2 cylinders being inside framesand 2 outside. The engine has a greatich may be improve-ments. .-,;!- LOCOMOTIVE

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