Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — NINE NEW ENGINES. [ARTICLE]

NINE NEW ENGINES.

To Be Placed on the Monon In the Fall. Superintendent of Motive Power Monkhouse, of the Monon, has gone to Dunkirk, N. Y. He carried With him the specifications for nine new locomotives which the Brooks locomotive works will build for the Monon. The plans were designed by Mr. Monkhouse. The engines will be completed by next fall and will be completed by next fall and will be superior to any now in the service of the Monon. The order is for four battleship freight moguls, three heavy switch engines and two fine passenger engines. The latter will be of the Chautauqua type. They will be an exact copy of engine No. 1302 on the Rock Island, which on every trip runs at the remarkable speed of eighty seven miles an hour. The new passenger engines, when received, will be placed in service on the Air Line, and the engines now used in pulling the fast trains on that division will be transferred to the main line.