Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1917 — MOST POWERFUL OF ENGINES [ARTICLE]

MOST POWERFUL OF ENGINES

“Seven Hundred," Triple Articulative Type, Put Into Service—Power Is Unlimited.

Seven Hundred, the most powerful locomotive that ever hauled a train, was put into service on a Virginia railroad the other day. It is of the triple articulative type —a type of which there are only three others in the United States, and all are owned by the Erie railroad. Seven Hundred, however, has a greater tractory power than any of its prototypes, there being practically no limit to the weight it can pull or push. Before its capacity could be reached, the drawbars and couplers of the most modern cars would break under the strain. Were it possible to put them together, it could pull 300 cars, loaded to capacity, and it would be able to push a much heavier load. A conception of its weight, 844,000 pounds, may be gained when it is known that, in coming from Eddystone, Pa., it had to detour 50 miles between Philadelphia and Wilmington, because the most direct line was not strong enough to bear its weight. The cost to build the locomotive was SBO,OOO, and it will be used to haul coal in the West Virginia mountains.