Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1890 — OCCUPIED ELEVEN CARS [ARTICLE]

OCCUPIED ELEVEN CARS

Immense Armor-Plate Header Sent t* the Mare Island Navy-Yard-Hamilton (Ohio) dispatch: The immense armor-plate bending-machine made here for the navy-yard at Marine Island, California, was shipped over the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and the Southern Pacific railroads- The machine was loaded on eleven flat-cars especially built and extra heavy. The two castings weigh respectively 66,420 and 66,200 pounds and the gross weight of- the train was 675,350 pounds. This train will be run through the entire distance, 3,400 miles, without change, the distance being greater than the entire system of the Canadian Pacific. The railroad company will not attempt to make fast time, owing to the great weight of the casting, but it will turn it over to the government April 1. The whole train,which will be run on a special boat atSanFrancisc.oand taken up the Sacramento river, was photographed before, it left Hamilton, and Agent George Smith of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, Commercial Agent W. H. Connor, of the Southern Pacific, and others accompanied it as far as Ciuciunatt.