Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1916 — MONON RECEIVES NEW ENGINES [ARTICLE]

MONON RECEIVES NEW ENGINES

Lafayette, November 17.—The Monon railroad last night received from Dunkirk, New York, the three Pacific type locomotives to be used on passenger runs between here and Louisville. The locomotives are numbered 450, 451 and 452. They are of the larger type engine, having the same boiler capacity as th r 500 class. They have twenty-six inch cylinders and are superheating. The driving wheels are seypnty-three inches, four and a half inch piston with a screw reverse gear. The headlights 'are also of the latest Edison Mazda type. The tank capacity is 9,000 gallons of fcater and fifteen tons of coal. The engines will be set up today in the back shop of the erecting department and will be sent out on their maiden trip on freights tomorrow and next day. The first engine out will »go straight to Youngstown, and the remaining two to McDoel. After everything is found to be working successfully they will be assigned to passenger runs between here and Louisville.