Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1895) (14574458818)

Identifier: locomotiveengine08hill (find matches)
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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uld hold up thehigh speed only under the most favorableconditions. After we got fairly started, the occupantsof the train settled down to amuse them-selves, ju.st as if we were passing over space 618 The morning was foggy and the railslipperv. The engine slipped occasionallywhen lifting the train into speed, but ap-peared to keep well to the rail when thehigher velocities were reached. At 7:54:55we reached Albany, the run of 143 mileshaving been made in 134 minutes 25 sec-onds. This took the train over the hard-est division at a speed of 63;^ miles anhour. The performance was a feather inthe cap of Engineer Buchanan and Fire-man A. Elliott, whose skillful labors keptthe steam always close to the poppingpoint. It is not of interest to give in detail allthe particulars of the run. At Albany, En-gine 999 took hold of the train. Bythe time she got to the uplands west ofWest Albany a keen quartering head windwas blowing, which greatly increased thetrain resistance. It was expected that the
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a,ooX A W •aw C P < w <A Q< W O aen t/5 619 999 would break the record. EngineerChase started out full of vim, backed byperfected engineering skill, but the ele-ments were against him. In the run of14S miles, made in 140 minutes, he ranabout fifteen minutes short of his expecta-tions. When an engine is pulling a.loadthat is equal to her capacity for the speedrequired in a calm, the engineer cannot beblamed if he falls behind when a twenty-five-miles-an-hour w-ind is holding himback. When we had got through the forest ofhuman forms that gave us noisy greetingas we passed through Syracuse, the stationwas reached, and the train was taken holdof by Engine 903, with Charlie Hogan, therecord-breaker, at the throttle. The windhad abated a little, and a splendid startwas made from Syracuse, which took thetrain over 103 miles in 92 minutes, a littleover 67 miles an hour. To those watchingthe record, mile after mile was made in 50seconds or under, and it was only the lossof time in s