Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1911 — FINEST ENGINES IN WORLD [ARTICLE]

FINEST ENGINES IN WORLD

Contrast Between American. Locomotives and Those Used tn Europe Is Rather Btoitftng. The steel trust end the railroads may be roundly abused for the coinmission of every sin, reasonable and unreasonable, under the Sherman law, but there is onfe thing they must be credited with, and that is putting forth and operating the finest rolling stock in. toe world. . American visitors abroad are quick to comment on the insignificant size and "queer” type of locomotives used by English and continental trains. One explanation is that the railroads of Europe have not had the profligate liberty that those in America have enjoyed, that they have been hindered am} circumscribed, even to the air space around the tracks. Often in England, roads, on encountering a common, Instead of blithely building a track rlgbt through it, have been compelled to use a tunnel or a bridge, and consequently the engines have to be kept as small and compact as possible. " i -ts"

In contrast to the locomotives of Europe is Santa Fe engine No. 3000, which has just rolled out of the shops at Topeka, Kas. It Is of the Mallet type, and is the largest locomotive in the world. It made its first trip a few days ago between Topeka and Emporia, but soon will be put to work more befitting Its strength. No. 3000 is one of fifty of the same type ordered by the Santa Fe. They will cost about $50,000 each. By the use of the Mallet articulated locomotives an ordinary train may be hauled from Chicago to the Pacific coast, or vice versa, without a change of engines. They can haul ordinary trains up steep mountain grades, where under other circumstances the train would have to be shortened or more locomotives summoned. The Mallet locomotive is really a double engine, with two boilers, each with its own set of driving wheels. The result is that the engine is transferred into an articulated locomotive of double power without an Increase In cost. No. 3000 Is nearly 122 feet long and weighs 375 tons with its tender. It has ten pairs of driving wheels in two- sets of five pairs each.