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Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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uite a surprise to find a fast trainon a small road up among the Connecticuthills, but this one is entitled to consider-able credit when all the conditions areconsidered. It runs from Hartford toCanaan, a distance of 55 miles, and whilethe time is 90 minutes one way and 95 theother, there are eight stops, three grade 69-inch wheels, which carry 67,000 poundsof the weight of the engine. The train is the Mountain Express ofthe Central New England road, and Mas-ter Mechanic Shaefer calls attention tothe relative sizes of Engineer WilliamAhearn and Fireman Joseph Kegler. Thephotograph was taken at Canaan by H. G.Reed, ticket agent at that place. faults and weaknesses of the hastily con-structed line seem to come rapidly andplentifully to light under the unexpectedand sudden strain of troop moving. It is reported that personal negotiationsbetween the Czar and Emperor Williamhave resulted in an arrangement wherebyGerman troops are being transported toChina by way of the Russian and Siberian
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MOUNTAIN EXPRESS ON CENTR.^L NEW ENGLAND RAILROAD. crossings of railways (which practicallyrequire a stop), and several slow-downsfor sharp curves. A profile of the road shows almost nolevel ground, and there is 11 miles wherethe grade is from 66 to 100 feet to themile—about 4,000 feet of the latter. Thereis one place near Hartford where 80 milesan hour is made for about 5 miles. The train consists of three special Pull-mans, weighing 170,600 pounds (total),and with the 174,000 pounds of engine andtender, bring the total up to 344,600pounds. The engine is a 12 and 20 by 24-inc.hVauclain compound, 180 pounds of steam, Test of the Siberian Railway. The great Siberian Railway is just nowbeing severely tested by the RussianGovernment in the hurried shipment oftroops and ordnance to the war section inChina. The railway has been hastily con-structed, and without the usual interim inwhich to bring it up to the required stan-dard for heavy and fast service, it findsitself subjected to perha

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