Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1912 — Record in Heavy Trains. [ARTICLE]

Record in Heavy Trains.

Unique in the history of railroading are the tremendous trains that have within the past few days been made up on the Lehigh Valley railroad. A few days ago a train of 115 cars of coal, bound for the Bethlehem steel works, created wonderment. Since then the trains have constantly been growing larger, until a new record was made.when a train of 133 coal cars moved westward from the Perth Aftboy docks for the Mahoning yards, for distribution to the mines. The train was 7,000 feet long, or morf than a m’.le and a quarter, and was drawn by two locomotives, a third pushing. It is said the trains are so large because trainmen are scarce.