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engines as a fair sample of their practice. There is no doubt 
whatever, that the American locomotive, both in design and 
construction is well suited for the service it is required to 
perform. In America freight trains consisting of from fifty to 
seventy covered cars of from thirty to thirty-five feet long are 
hauled by two or more locomotives, generally of the consolidation 
class, consisting of four coupled axles and a single bogie truck, 
whereas in England, shorter trains of small open trucks, some- 
times covered with tarpaulins, are hauled by a single engine. The 
difference in practice is due to the different conditions existing, 
one of which is the longer haulages necessary in America on a 
single line. I consider that the statement often made that the 
American engine hauls more than the English type is founded on 
& misconception, as by the universal use of bogie rolling stock in 
America a much smaller resistance is offered to the tractive force 
exerted by the engine, and experience in this country with English 
built engines compares favorably with American in haulage, and 
in fuel economy. I was much impressed with the statements 
made by many railway engineers in regard to the compound 
locomotive ; the general impression being that it is the coming 
engine for heavy freight traffic. This subject is now receiving 
considerable attention both in America and Europe, and the 
experiments of Professors Storm, Bull, and Goss, the Baldwin and 
the Brooks Locomotive Company, all go to prove that where the 
work to be done is approximately constant, there is a decided 
economy in the compound locomotive. 
The Pennsylvania Company have built at Altona four distinc, 
types of the compound locomotives for experimental purposes 
and I hope to receive shortly the results which ought to demon- 
Strate the saving or otherwise due to the compound principle. 
Messrs. Beyer and Peacock of Manchester have built a few com- 
pound locomotives for our railways, according to designs prepared 
by the Chief Mechanical Engineer, Mr. Thow. These engines are 
of the type known as the Von Borris or Worsdale, which appears 
to be most in favour also with the American engineers. 
