Accomplishments of three locomotives warranted reporting last week, despite the popular impression that the last locomotive word had been said with the construction of the monster double-articulated Mallet engine which hauls mile-long coal trains over the Cumberland Mountains.
Of the three new locomotives, two were in the U. S., one in Denmark:
B. & O.'s Long-Lugger. The Baltimore & Ohio has 21 engines named after Presidents. They haul the B. & O.'s Capitol Limited and National Limited and other crack trains and last week the President Pierce, with a mechanical stoker feeding Pittsburgh...
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