Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1914 — LARGEST LOCOMOTIVE IN THE WORLD, RECENTLY PUT INTO ACTIVE SERVICE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LARGEST LOCOMOTIVE IN THE WORLD, RECENTLY PUT INTO ACTIVE SERVICE

The power that is depicted in the lines of this powerful steed of the steel rails will set most people to thinking of the great strides which have been made since the first locomotive startled the people who lived along the line of the first railroad, instead of having one driving-wheel, this, the "Centipede” locomotive, has 24. Eight of these w’heels are under the tender. It has two iowpressure cylinders mnd nne' high -pressure cyl- - inder. So powerful is this giant of all locomotives? that it cannot be used for pulling ordinary freight trains, be-

Cause if this locomotive were coupled to one of the great freight trains it would pull apart the couplings and ruin the “draft gear” of the traint It is because of this fact that the giant' is put in the middle of the train. With one-half of its power it pulls the cars behind it, and with the other half of its power it pushes the cars ahead of it. The total weight of the engine is 853,050 pounds. Tho tank has a water capacity of 16 tons. The tractive effort is 160,000 pounds. The engine is 105 feet long and is capable of hauling 6,400 tons.