Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1901 — A Locomotive Suggestion. [ARTICLE]

A Locomotive Suggestion.

Here is something new in locomotive construction, or rather a suggestion cf something new. It comes from the Scientific American, which is high authority on all things scientific. The American points out that we are at present in some respects at a standstill regarding railroad locomotives, for the reason that the source of power, the boiler, is practically as big as it can be made on the present plan. It has to be set up on the driving wheels and at that height the tunnels forbid its further enlargement. The suggestion is to transfer the machinery to the tender, thus requiring the frame that carries engine and boiler both to carry the boiler alone. In this way we can get a boiler so large that the engine will maintain a speed of over sixty miles an hour when dragging fifteen Pullman cars.