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America’s Largest Freight-Engine Boiler

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 14, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 23.

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America’s Largest Freight-Engine Boiler

The latest great freight-engine boiler built for the Delaware and Hudson Railroad is 44 feet 10 inches long; largest diameter, 96 inches; its weight, with water, 80 tons; the fire-box, 10 feet 6 inches by 9 feet 8 inches, would, as the Scientific American remarks, make a fair living room. The front end of the boiler is 7½ feet in diameter. The engine, with the tender, weighs 611,800 pounds; its weight on drivers is 445,000 pounds; its boiler pressure, 220 pounds; and its heating surface is 6,629 square feet.