Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1914 — LOCOMOTIVE 24 FEET HIGH [ARTICLE]

LOCOMOTIVE 24 FEET HIGH

Western Railroad Now Has the est Passenger Engine in the World. The largest passenger locomotive in the world pulled into the La Salle street station at Chicago the other day. It is the first jof thirty monsters building for the road. The locomotive, with tender, is one hundred feet hong, the engine eighty-five feet and the tender fifteen. It Is twenty-four feet high and weighs 333,000 pounds, or 160.000 pounds without the tender. It can pull twenty passenger or Pullman cars with ease. There are (our 69-inch driving wheels on each side, the largest wheels on any locomotive in the world. The weight on the driving wheels is 224,000 pounds. The engine has a traction power of fifty thousand pounds and runs with a steam pressure.of 185 pounds. New steel equipment necessitates these powerful machines.