Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1917 — NEW LOCOMOTIVE IS LARGE [ARTICLE]

NEW LOCOMOTIVE IS LARGE

Greatest Steam Engine in World Just Put Into Service—Has 24 Driving Wheels. The greatest Ibcomotlve In the world has been put into service by the Baldwin Locomotive works. It is so gigantic; says Popular Science Monthly, that Its boiler had to be made flexible at three different joints so that the locomotive could turn around a curve. It is over 100 feet long and weighs 420 tons. Twenty-four driving wheels, each standing as high as an averagesize man, afford it traction. The drivIng wheels are distributed along the length of the locomotive in sets of four pairs, the wheels of each being coupled together and driven by two giant steam cylinders. Under full steam, the locomotive can exert an 83-ton pull on the cars behind it — which means that It can easily haul a freight train two miles long and 23,000 tons In weight, over an ordinarily good roadbed at an average rate of 14 miles an hour, and possibly more.