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AMERICAN ENGINEER, CAR BUILDER

TEN-WHEEL PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVES-—GREAT
NORTHERN RAILWAY.

The recent improvement of the locomotive eq_u1pment 011
the Great Northern Railway includes a new design of very
heavy passenger locomotives built by the Brooks Locomotive
Works, -of Dunkirk, N. Y. Eight of these engines have been
in service for four months, and they are reported to be giving
very satisfactory results. . They are the heaviest passenger

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locomotives ever built and a comparison ‘with the dimensions
and weight of the engines of the same type of the Southern
Railway, illustrated in our issue of March 1898, page 82, will
be interesting. The total Weight of the Southern. engine is
158,000 pounds, and the weight on drivers is 121,250 pounds,
while ‘the corresponding Weights of the Great Northern design
are ‘166,000ipounds and 129,500 pounds. '

The cylinders are 20 inches in diameter by 30 inches

  
    

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stroke, these dimensions and the Weight being in accordainoe
with the ideas of Mr. J. J. Hill, Presidentof the road. In
general, the details are in accordance with the practice
of these builders, and by compariso-n with the details of the

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engines of the same type for the Wisconsin Central (899
“American. Engineer,” June, .1898, pp. 190-193), a. similarity In
general details will be found, except that the Wisconsin Cen-
tral engines are much lighter, the total weight being 150,000

 

Bnooxs LOCOMOTIVE Womze, Buz'la7ers.

J . O. PATTEE, Superintendent Motive Power.