Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — LOCOMOTIVE OF NEW TYPE [ARTICLE]

LOCOMOTIVE OF NEW TYPE

Leviathan That Is Being Gfuilt In England for Use on Road In Mexico. > The largest locomotive ever built in the United Kingdom is now under construction 'in the workshops of the Vulcan Locomotive company at New-ton-le-Willows, Lancashire, It is designed for hauling exceptionally heavy loads long distances over very hilly country, and is being built for the Mexican National Railway company, who have ordered a number of the same type from the Vulcan Locomotive company. The weight of the engine, withont the tender, is 140 tons. It is a tank engine, and has an immense single boiler, the length of which is over forty feet. It is nearly three times as long as the boiler of an ordinary tank engine on a British railway. Firing and driving are controlled from the center of the locomotive and a double cab is built round the middle of the boiler. Driver and fireman hare separate cabs on each side. There are two separate furnaces, and a funnel at each end of the locomotive to draw off the gases from these. Behind each funnel is an immense sandbox, so placed as to keep the large bulk of sand absolutely dry. Portholes look from the central cabs to either end of the engine, which are both furnished with cow-catchers. The total height of thfe engine is over fourteen feet, and the length 56 feet. The two sets of six-coupled driving-wheels are only four feet in diameter. It will haul a load of 400 tons up the steepest gradient encountered in the mountainous country traversed by the Mexican railway.