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Title: Every boy's book of railways and steamships
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Protheroe, Ernest
Subjects: Railroads Steamboats
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ly be eighteen inches widerthan ours, and that extra width counts for a verygreat deal in the fire-box. In some past chapters there are frequentreferences to American locomotives in comparisonwith British. Even at the risk of repetition, itwill be well to note a few special performances. On the New York Central line. No. 3381 Atlantic, working the Empire State Express fromNew York to Bufialo, ran 440 miles at 53 milesan hour. On the Atlantic City railroad. No. 1027four-cylindered compound has a specially largeboiler extending over the trailing wheels. Fortwo months this engine never occupied more than47 minutes in travelling the 55^ miles betweenPhiladelphia and Atlantic City ; and upon quitetwenty days the time was below 47 minutes, or70 miles an hour. The Pennsylvanian Railroad boasts of a finelong-distance speed record from Pittsburg toChicago, 468 miles in 7 hrs. 42 min., at an averagespeed of nearly 61 miles an hour. Never before inAmerica or elsewhere has so high an average been
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THE TRANS^CONTINENTALS 155 maintained over so great a distance. Reallythe actual speed attained was at least 62 milesan hour, for the train was stopped four orfive times, causing it to lose well over twelveminutes. The Lake Shore and Michigan lines haveengines of the Prairie type (2-6-2), workingthe Twentieth Century Limited between Chicagoand New York. The specifications of the engineare worth attention : weight of engine, 117 tons;tender, 72 tons; 20j in. cylinders, 28 in. stroke ;driving-wheels, 6 ft. 8 in.; fire-box, 7 ft. by 7 ft.;344 tubes; total heating area, 3597 sq. ft. Thetender holds 13 tons of coal and 6000 gallons ofwater. An engine of such proportions should attainsomething out of the common, and to run 960miles in 956 minutes comes well within that category. Plate XXV depicts a Southern Pacificexpress hurtling along an unfenced track. On page 138 reference was made to theGreat Westerns locomotive, the Great Bear,Pacific type (4-6-2). If we place a British Pacific by the

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